This lecture examines the work of one of the outstanding figures of twentieth-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.

Image: Frink’s Little Bird of 1961.