Cardiff's Betty Campbell monument has been voted the best in the UK by the public at a prestigious statue and sculpture awards. The monument was announced as the winner of the public vote at the Public Statues and Sculpture Association (PSSA) Marsh Awards 2022 for Excellence in Public Sculpture in an online ceremony on Tuesday (November 24).
The monument was unveiled in Cardiff city centre on September 29 last year. It was created following a campaign by Monumental Welsh Women, a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to recognising the contribution of women to the history and life of Wales.
The subject of the four-metre high sculpture - which stands in front of the HMRC building in Central Square - is Wales' first Black headteacher, Betty Campbell, known for paving the way to equality and diversity in the capital and beyond. She was born Rachel Elizabeth Campbell in 1934 in Cardiff's docklands area to a Jamaican father and Welsh Barbadian mother and grew up in Tiger Bay.
