Elisabeth Frink
The Expressive power of bronze
2 June 2027
Digby hall , hound street, sherborne at 3 pm and 7 pm
Salisbury: Elisabeth Frink: Walking Madonna
Elisabeth Frink: Head-Liverpool Cathedral
The War Horse
Frink: Yorkshire Sculpture Park: Running Men
This lecture examines the work of one of the outstanding figures of 20th century sculpture, an artist who achieved an international reputation for her monumental works depicting the human figure, birds and other animals. Sadly she died in her early 60s but ,from the first small sculpture acquired by the Tate Gallery (when she was a student of 21)until her death, she produced an astonishing body of work. Her bronzes varied in scale and feeling, from small, threatening birds to the life – size, tranquil Walking Madonna in Salisbury Cathedral Close. Frink’s work will be examined in the context of great British and European predecessors such as Henry Moore, Auguste Rodin and Alberto Giacometti, as well as her contemporaries, including Reg Butler, Jean Fautrier and Germaine Richier
Frank Woodgate
Lecturer and Guide at Tate Britain and Tate Modern, for the Art Fund, the National Trust, U3A and other organisations, including on Zoom. Lectured for Dulwich Picture Gallery, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester and on cruises on behalf of Tate. Previously script-writer for The Living Paintings Trust (Art for the visually-impaired).