Eduardo Joel Fabio Barraclough Valls (1923 – 6 January 2019) was a Spanish-born academic noted for his connection to police in apartheid South Africa.[1]
Barraclough was born in Madrid in 1923,[2] to a Spanish mother and Yorkshire father who founded Madrid's Chamber of Commerce.[3][4] He moved to London with his family in the 1930s as a refugee from Francoist Spain.[5] He taught fine art and sculpture at Rugby School, where colleagues considered him "highly entertaining, a most unorthodox and highly gifted" teacher.[3] He established himself during the 1960s and early 1970s as an authority on sculpture, publishing in academic journals[6][7] and becoming a member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors.[8] In 1974, Barraclough was appointed to a three-year contract as professor of fine arts at the University of the Witwatersrand.[9] some colleagues there did not think well of his work, and he was transferred to a job at an associated gallery.[8]
In 2000, it was revealed that Barraclough, while outwardly living the life of anti-apartheid activist since the 1970s, had been a paid informant of the South African state security police.[1][10] The media was used to promote his image as a "brilliant, liberal artist with apparently impeccable credentials" in order to gain public trust, while he was funneling money from anti-apartheid groups to the police.[1][11] He died on 6 January 2019.[12][13]
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