![]() George’s Gallery, London and this signified how early success came to Frink’s career as she became the most prominent female sculptor in post-war Britain. In 1955 she was given her first solo exhibition at the St. Frink joined the staff at the Chelsea School of Art in 1954 and two years later also began teaching at St. This exposure led to her becoming the youngest female artist included in the national collections after the Tate bought Bird of Prey, a small bronze from the exhibition. In 1952, Frink exhibited professionally for the first time at the Beaux Arts Gallery, London with John Harvey and Michael Werner. Regular visits to the school by sculptor Henry Moore were said to have had a profound effect on Frink and she also claims a book given to her on Rodin inspired her greatly, ‘This impressed me and I think as much as anything helped me to decide to become a sculptor’ (the artist cited in Sarah Kent (ed.) and Elisabeth Frink, Elisabeth Frink Sculpture Catalogue Raisonné, Harpvale Limited, 1984, p.28). Frink then went on to be taught by Willi Soukop and Bernard Meadows at the Chelsea School of Art in 1948, where she continued to work with subjects in three dimensions. In 1946 she applied for and won a place at the Guildford School of Art, moving from painting to sculpting after just a year of attendance. A short visit to Venice would change her forever and inspire her to study the art she had experienced in this new-found culture. In 1945 Frink travelled with her family to stay with her father who was stationed in Trieste. This later influenced her expression in the nature of human condition, especially after the war. It was through her father that Frink also found an interest in guns and dogs. She had her first pony at the age of three and was riding by four. Frink had an affinity with horses from a young age. Sculptor and printmaker, Dame Elisabeth Jean Frink was born on 14th November 1930 in Thurlow, Suffolk and was the only daughter of Calvary officer Ralph Cuyler Frink (1899 – 1974) and his wife, colonel’s daughter Jean Conway-Gordon (b.1910). Thurlow, Suffolk 1930 – 1993 Woolland, Dorset
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