Neville Garrick

Kenneth Neville Anthony Garrick (28 July 1950 – 14 November 2023) was a Jamaican graphic artist and photographer who was based in Los Angeles. He was a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is best known as Bob Marley's art director and is responsible for many of the iconic designs associated with the reggae movement in the 1970s and 1980s.

Early life and career Kenneth Neville Anthony Garrick was born in Jamaica on 28 July 1950. He attended Kingston College in Jamaica before studying graphic art (after switching from economics) at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), on a football scholarship, where he played for the UCLA Bruins men's soccer team, reaching the National Collegiate Athletic Association finals in both 1971 and 1972. In 1970, Garrick together with six other art students created The Black Experience mural, including depictions of abolitionists Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman, as well prominent figures in the civil rights era including Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, Bobby Seale, Huey P. Newton, Muhammad Ali, and Angela Davis. The mural, located in the Ackerman Student Union building, was restored in 2013. Garrick was a member of the Southern California Chapter of the Black Panthers and a student of Angela Davis at UCLA.

After returning to Jamaica, he became the art director for the Jamaica Daily News from 1973 to 1974. His first album cover art for Rastaman Vibration was ranked number 22 in Billboards 2023 list of 100 best album covers of all time. Other Marley album covers designed by Garrick include Exodus, Uprising, and the posthumously released Confrontation. He was the author of A Rasta's Pilgrimage: Ethiopian Faces and Places (1999), and co-producer of the 1992 film Time Will Tell, which featured taped interviews from Bob Marley.

Awards and honours 2005 – Prime Minister's Award for Excellence 2022 – Jamaica Reggae Industry Association (JaRIA) Gregory Isaacs Foundation award. 2023 – Jamaica's Order of Distinction in the Rank of Commander (CD).