From martial arts to visual arts, Olympian artist Neil Eckersley’s classic underdog story
The year was 1980, and British judoka Neil Adams had just won a silver medal at the Olympic Games in Moscow. Some 3,000km away, in Salford, Manchester, a 16-year-old dyslexic and somewhat hyperactive kid who was always in trouble at school was watching, completely enthralled. “It was a turning point in my life,” says Neil Eckersley, one of […]