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A Place Apart - The Elisabeth Frink Studio
A BBC South short film about the recontruction of the Elisabeth Frink studio at Messums Wiltshire. Features interviews with gallery owner Johnny Messum, head of programming Hannah Hooks and head of logistics Hannah Davies.
Courtesy: BBC South
published: 07 Jul 2020
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Postwar Modern: Clare Twomey on Elisabeth Frink
Artist Clare Twomey talks about the life and work of Elisabeth Frink.
Elisabeth Frink is one of the artists featured in our exhibition Postwar Modern: New Art in Britain 1945-1965; a revelatory new take on art in Britain after the Second World War, a period when artists had to make sense of an entirely altered world.
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published: 11 May 2022
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Elisabeth Frink - An interview
Elisabeth Frink at Woolland
Produced by BBC South, 1985
Courtesy BBC South
3.15 mins
published: 15 Jul 2020
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Elisabeth Frink in discussion with Peter Shaffer & Peter Levi
In the 80's I worked with an awesome couple of documentary film makers: Harry Marshall & Patrick McCreanor, and became involved as the composer on an ambitious tv series for Channel 4 based on the premise that "now we're becoming a less religious society, does creativity have any value?" So if for example Michael Angelo created the Sistine Chapel ceiling exalted by God .. would his art have had any value without divine influence?
We made four films and this one was based around a conversation about Elisabeth Frink's work. Together with Peter Shaffer & Peter Levi (Oxford Professor of Poetry) Harry & Patrick undertook a general exploration of many elements of Elisabeth's work, following her through a commissioning in Hong Kong to create what eventually became a series of works studying wa...
published: 17 Mar 2017
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Elisabeth Frink: Nature and Humanity in the Dorset Countryside
Modern British artist Elisabeth Frink spent much of her career living and working in her beautiful country home in Dorset, Woolland House. This film looks at how this environment inspired her explorations of nature and humanity, through sculptures and prints that are both aggressive and vulnerable.
This film was made in conjunction with the exhibition Elisabeth Frink: A Collector's Passion from The Ingram Collection, open at The Lightbox from 13 October 2018 - 6 January 2019.
published: 19 Oct 2018
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Vlog: Elisabeth Frink exhibition
John recently visited the Elisabeth Frink exhibition at Nottingham Lakeside Arts, and this is what he thought of it.
Find out more about the exhibition: http://goo.gl/hEjZ5g
See more from John: https://www.youtube.com/user/JaMSessions92
Watch the City Council's tour of Nottingham: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N74UOukeiQ
About the University:
The University of Nottingham is a pioneering university that provides an exceptional research-led education , and an outstanding student experience. Our vision is to be a university without borders, where we embrace the opportunities presented by a changing world, and where ambitious people and a creative culture will enable us to change the world for the better.
Find out more:
Website: https://bit.ly/3nynlc9
Facebook: https://bit.ly/2GK...
published: 11 Feb 2016
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Elisabeth Frink: The Life and Works
This Weymouth College produced Documentary focuses on Dame Elisabeth Frink and her sculptures. Includes interview with Lin Jammet, Elisabeth Frinks Son and also an artist.
published: 19 Apr 2009
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Elisabeth Frink: The Presence of Sculpture | Djanogly Gallery | 23 November 2015
Focusing, for the first time, on the challenges of making work, on the one hand privately and, on the other, on commission for outdoor public display, this exhibition brings together more than 70 of Elisabeth Frink’s sculptures, plasters and drawings, alongside photographs of the artist at work and an evocative recreation of her final studio. Coming on to the scene in the postwar years, Elisabeth Frink (1930-93) quickly began receiving commissions to create public sculptures for social housing, religious buildings, new towns and urban developments. All but one of these remain in situ today. Known particularly for her dogs, horses and birdmen (hybrid or shape-shifting characters), Frink created sculptures that are expressive, distinctive and timeless. In this major survey exhibition, co-cur...
published: 30 Mar 2023
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SEVEN WONDERS - A Significant Collection of Seven Sculptural Works by Dame Elisabeth Frink
In this extended film, Dreweatts Picture Specialist Francesca Whitham shares her passion and insights into this significant collection of seven works by Dame Elisabeth Frink coming to auction at Dreweatts on 15 March 2023.
Born in 1930 and growing up in rural Suffolk in England, Dame Elisabeth was directly influenced by her childhood experiences exploring the countryside and developed a deep connection and appreciation of nature from her observations of the innate behaviours and temperaments of the wildlife and farm animals that surrounded her.
‘If one could say I have a religion it is that man should be free in his spirit. That’s very important to me. And that applies to animals as well.' - Elisabeth Frink, 1991.
This idyllic childhood and these naturalistic subjects were to serve as ...
published: 14 Feb 2023
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Elizabeth Frink's Christ - Art Chats
Elizabeth Frink has been described as a sculptor that expressed "the nature of Man; the 'horseness' of horses; and the divine in human form".
Continuing our series highlighting, Women artists in our collection, Assistant Curator Miriam O'Connor Perks looks at Frink's statue, 'Christ' [1983).
Elisabeth Frink (1930 - 1993), Christ, 1983, Provided to Pallant House Gallery in accordance with the wishes of the artist's late son, Lin Jammet, (2020)
published: 15 Jun 2022
3:39
A Place Apart - The Elisabeth Frink Studio
A BBC South short film about the recontruction of the Elisabeth Frink studio at Messums Wiltshire. Features interviews with gallery owner Johnny Messum, head of...
A BBC South short film about the recontruction of the Elisabeth Frink studio at Messums Wiltshire. Features interviews with gallery owner Johnny Messum, head of programming Hannah Hooks and head of logistics Hannah Davies.
Courtesy: BBC South
https://wn.com/A_Place_Apart_The_Elisabeth_Frink_Studio
A BBC South short film about the recontruction of the Elisabeth Frink studio at Messums Wiltshire. Features interviews with gallery owner Johnny Messum, head of programming Hannah Hooks and head of logistics Hannah Davies.
Courtesy: BBC South
- published: 07 Jul 2020
- views: 1731
5:18
Postwar Modern: Clare Twomey on Elisabeth Frink
Artist Clare Twomey talks about the life and work of Elisabeth Frink.
Elisabeth Frink is one of the artists featured in our exhibition Postwar Modern: New Art ...
Artist Clare Twomey talks about the life and work of Elisabeth Frink.
Elisabeth Frink is one of the artists featured in our exhibition Postwar Modern: New Art in Britain 1945-1965; a revelatory new take on art in Britain after the Second World War, a period when artists had to make sense of an entirely altered world.
Show your support for the Barbican by making a donation and help inspire more people to discover and love the arts. https://www.barbican.org.uk/donate
Pushing the boundaries of theatre, dance, film, music and visual art, the Barbican is a world-class arts and learning centre.
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Welcome to the Barbican Centre's YouTube channel. From exclusive trailers and specially commissioned interviews to concert recordings, behind the scenes tours and insights into the unseen areas of the Barbican, subscribe to our channel for all the latest Barbican videos.
https://wn.com/Postwar_Modern_Clare_Twomey_On_Elisabeth_Frink
Artist Clare Twomey talks about the life and work of Elisabeth Frink.
Elisabeth Frink is one of the artists featured in our exhibition Postwar Modern: New Art in Britain 1945-1965; a revelatory new take on art in Britain after the Second World War, a period when artists had to make sense of an entirely altered world.
Show your support for the Barbican by making a donation and help inspire more people to discover and love the arts. https://www.barbican.org.uk/donate
Pushing the boundaries of theatre, dance, film, music and visual art, the Barbican is a world-class arts and learning centre.
Subscribe: http://ow.ly/O44tx
Like: http://www.facebook.com/barbicancentre
Follow: http://www.twitter.com/barbicancentre
Discover: http://www.instagram.com/barbicancentre
Explore: https://www.barbican.org.uk/read-watch-listen
What’s on? http://www.barbican.org.uk
Welcome to the Barbican Centre's YouTube channel. From exclusive trailers and specially commissioned interviews to concert recordings, behind the scenes tours and insights into the unseen areas of the Barbican, subscribe to our channel for all the latest Barbican videos.
- published: 11 May 2022
- views: 1273
3:15
Elisabeth Frink - An interview
Elisabeth Frink at Woolland
Produced by BBC South, 1985
Courtesy BBC South
3.15 mins
Elisabeth Frink at Woolland
Produced by BBC South, 1985
Courtesy BBC South
3.15 mins
https://wn.com/Elisabeth_Frink_An_Interview
Elisabeth Frink at Woolland
Produced by BBC South, 1985
Courtesy BBC South
3.15 mins
- published: 15 Jul 2020
- views: 4073
37:52
Elisabeth Frink in discussion with Peter Shaffer & Peter Levi
In the 80's I worked with an awesome couple of documentary film makers: Harry Marshall & Patrick McCreanor, and became involved as the composer on an ambitious ...
In the 80's I worked with an awesome couple of documentary film makers: Harry Marshall & Patrick McCreanor, and became involved as the composer on an ambitious tv series for Channel 4 based on the premise that "now we're becoming a less religious society, does creativity have any value?" So if for example Michael Angelo created the Sistine Chapel ceiling exalted by God .. would his art have had any value without divine influence?
We made four films and this one was based around a conversation about Elisabeth Frink's work. Together with Peter Shaffer & Peter Levi (Oxford Professor of Poetry) Harry & Patrick undertook a general exploration of many elements of Elisabeth's work, following her through a commissioning in Hong Kong to create what eventually became a series of works studying water buffalo.
Although the film is over 30 years old and some of the music production feels quite clunky to me now, I decided to put the film on YouTube as it offers a wonderful insight for those who know little about Frink's work, which I find awe inspiring.
During the process of composing the score, I explored her notion of the "soul of animals". As a result around 16 minutes into the film, there's a short piece with a sonic palette and modus operandi, that became very much part of my oeuvre and although set here quite crudely, I have Liz to thank for setting me on a journey which led to the incorporation of these sorts of choral ideas with percussive, atonal and melodic orchestral elements in my work.
Other films in the series were based on the work of Iris Murdoch, John Tavener and Cecil Collins ... culminating in a film based at All Saints Church in Hampshire where Cecil was commissioned to create a huge stained glass piece for the Great West Window, in front of which Liz had created her "Head of Christ" and John wrote a choral piece for the dedication service. Truly uplifting stuff!
https://wn.com/Elisabeth_Frink_In_Discussion_With_Peter_Shaffer_Peter_Levi
In the 80's I worked with an awesome couple of documentary film makers: Harry Marshall & Patrick McCreanor, and became involved as the composer on an ambitious tv series for Channel 4 based on the premise that "now we're becoming a less religious society, does creativity have any value?" So if for example Michael Angelo created the Sistine Chapel ceiling exalted by God .. would his art have had any value without divine influence?
We made four films and this one was based around a conversation about Elisabeth Frink's work. Together with Peter Shaffer & Peter Levi (Oxford Professor of Poetry) Harry & Patrick undertook a general exploration of many elements of Elisabeth's work, following her through a commissioning in Hong Kong to create what eventually became a series of works studying water buffalo.
Although the film is over 30 years old and some of the music production feels quite clunky to me now, I decided to put the film on YouTube as it offers a wonderful insight for those who know little about Frink's work, which I find awe inspiring.
During the process of composing the score, I explored her notion of the "soul of animals". As a result around 16 minutes into the film, there's a short piece with a sonic palette and modus operandi, that became very much part of my oeuvre and although set here quite crudely, I have Liz to thank for setting me on a journey which led to the incorporation of these sorts of choral ideas with percussive, atonal and melodic orchestral elements in my work.
Other films in the series were based on the work of Iris Murdoch, John Tavener and Cecil Collins ... culminating in a film based at All Saints Church in Hampshire where Cecil was commissioned to create a huge stained glass piece for the Great West Window, in front of which Liz had created her "Head of Christ" and John wrote a choral piece for the dedication service. Truly uplifting stuff!
- published: 17 Mar 2017
- views: 3847
2:47
Elisabeth Frink: Nature and Humanity in the Dorset Countryside
Modern British artist Elisabeth Frink spent much of her career living and working in her beautiful country home in Dorset, Woolland House. This film looks at ho...
Modern British artist Elisabeth Frink spent much of her career living and working in her beautiful country home in Dorset, Woolland House. This film looks at how this environment inspired her explorations of nature and humanity, through sculptures and prints that are both aggressive and vulnerable.
This film was made in conjunction with the exhibition Elisabeth Frink: A Collector's Passion from The Ingram Collection, open at The Lightbox from 13 October 2018 - 6 January 2019.
https://wn.com/Elisabeth_Frink_Nature_And_Humanity_In_The_Dorset_Countryside
Modern British artist Elisabeth Frink spent much of her career living and working in her beautiful country home in Dorset, Woolland House. This film looks at how this environment inspired her explorations of nature and humanity, through sculptures and prints that are both aggressive and vulnerable.
This film was made in conjunction with the exhibition Elisabeth Frink: A Collector's Passion from The Ingram Collection, open at The Lightbox from 13 October 2018 - 6 January 2019.
- published: 19 Oct 2018
- views: 2143
4:34
Vlog: Elisabeth Frink exhibition
John recently visited the Elisabeth Frink exhibition at Nottingham Lakeside Arts, and this is what he thought of it.
Find out more about the exhibition: http:/...
John recently visited the Elisabeth Frink exhibition at Nottingham Lakeside Arts, and this is what he thought of it.
Find out more about the exhibition: http://goo.gl/hEjZ5g
See more from John: https://www.youtube.com/user/JaMSessions92
Watch the City Council's tour of Nottingham: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N74UOukeiQ
About the University:
The University of Nottingham is a pioneering university that provides an exceptional research-led education , and an outstanding student experience. Our vision is to be a university without borders, where we embrace the opportunities presented by a changing world, and where ambitious people and a creative culture will enable us to change the world for the better.
Find out more:
Website: https://bit.ly/3nynlc9
Facebook: https://bit.ly/2GKYaCd
Twitter: https://bit.ly/3dacbWg
Instagram: https://bit.ly/33JslTm
LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3iM5BGs
https://wn.com/Vlog_Elisabeth_Frink_Exhibition
John recently visited the Elisabeth Frink exhibition at Nottingham Lakeside Arts, and this is what he thought of it.
Find out more about the exhibition: http://goo.gl/hEjZ5g
See more from John: https://www.youtube.com/user/JaMSessions92
Watch the City Council's tour of Nottingham: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N74UOukeiQ
About the University:
The University of Nottingham is a pioneering university that provides an exceptional research-led education , and an outstanding student experience. Our vision is to be a university without borders, where we embrace the opportunities presented by a changing world, and where ambitious people and a creative culture will enable us to change the world for the better.
Find out more:
Website: https://bit.ly/3nynlc9
Facebook: https://bit.ly/2GKYaCd
Twitter: https://bit.ly/3dacbWg
Instagram: https://bit.ly/33JslTm
LinkedIn: https://bit.ly/3iM5BGs
- published: 11 Feb 2016
- views: 650
3:32
Elisabeth Frink: The Life and Works
This Weymouth College produced Documentary focuses on Dame Elisabeth Frink and her sculptures. Includes interview with Lin Jammet, Elisabeth Frinks Son and also...
This Weymouth College produced Documentary focuses on Dame Elisabeth Frink and her sculptures. Includes interview with Lin Jammet, Elisabeth Frinks Son and also an artist.
https://wn.com/Elisabeth_Frink_The_Life_And_Works
This Weymouth College produced Documentary focuses on Dame Elisabeth Frink and her sculptures. Includes interview with Lin Jammet, Elisabeth Frinks Son and also an artist.
- published: 19 Apr 2009
- views: 3557
15:32
Elisabeth Frink: The Presence of Sculpture | Djanogly Gallery | 23 November 2015
Focusing, for the first time, on the challenges of making work, on the one hand privately and, on the other, on commission for outdoor public display, this exhi...
Focusing, for the first time, on the challenges of making work, on the one hand privately and, on the other, on commission for outdoor public display, this exhibition brings together more than 70 of Elisabeth Frink’s sculptures, plasters and drawings, alongside photographs of the artist at work and an evocative recreation of her final studio. Coming on to the scene in the postwar years, Elisabeth Frink (1930-93) quickly began receiving commissions to create public sculptures for social housing, religious buildings, new towns and urban developments. All but one of these remain in situ today. Known particularly for her dogs, horses and birdmen (hybrid or shape-shifting characters), Frink created sculptures that are expressive, distinctive and timeless. In this major survey exhibition, co-curated by Annette Ratuszniak, from the Frink Estate and Archive, and Neil Walker, head of visual arts programming at Nottingham Lakeside Arts, the development of Frink’s commissions, in line with her own personal themes, to which she remained committed, is traced. Always working unassisted, Frink would first create a wire armature, before adding plaster, which she would then work back with a rasp and chisel. Seeing the scale of some of the pieces – including Horse (1980), for which the gallery windows had to be removed to bring it in – one can’t help but stand back in awe. An important inclusion in the exhibition is Frink’s first public commission, a concrete sculpture of St John Bosco (1952), which, until recently, was deemed lost or destroyed. It turned up earlier this year after the current owner realised it might be a Frink and contacted Beaux Arts gallery to look into the matter. Although it has lost one of the three original figures, the piece has otherwise fared well and, following conservation, stands proud as a testament to the sculptor’s skill: at the time of the commission, Frink was still a student at Chelsea School of Art. Another highlight of the exhibition is the recreation of Frink’s final studio, at Woolland in Dorset, based on extensive photographic documentation. Alongside her crates and tools and plasters, there’s the chair that the subjects of her portraits, including Alec Guinness, once sat on, and, to complete the evocation, a soundtrack of music is being played, comprising classical pieces known to have been favoured by the artist. Studio International spoke to the exhibition curators about Frink’s unusual working process and the bringing together of this major survey show. Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham Lakeside Arts 25 November 2015 – 28 February 2016.
Interview by ANNA McNAY
Filmed by MARTIN KENNEDY
https://wn.com/Elisabeth_Frink_The_Presence_Of_Sculpture_|_Djanogly_Gallery_|_23_November_2015
Focusing, for the first time, on the challenges of making work, on the one hand privately and, on the other, on commission for outdoor public display, this exhibition brings together more than 70 of Elisabeth Frink’s sculptures, plasters and drawings, alongside photographs of the artist at work and an evocative recreation of her final studio. Coming on to the scene in the postwar years, Elisabeth Frink (1930-93) quickly began receiving commissions to create public sculptures for social housing, religious buildings, new towns and urban developments. All but one of these remain in situ today. Known particularly for her dogs, horses and birdmen (hybrid or shape-shifting characters), Frink created sculptures that are expressive, distinctive and timeless. In this major survey exhibition, co-curated by Annette Ratuszniak, from the Frink Estate and Archive, and Neil Walker, head of visual arts programming at Nottingham Lakeside Arts, the development of Frink’s commissions, in line with her own personal themes, to which she remained committed, is traced. Always working unassisted, Frink would first create a wire armature, before adding plaster, which she would then work back with a rasp and chisel. Seeing the scale of some of the pieces – including Horse (1980), for which the gallery windows had to be removed to bring it in – one can’t help but stand back in awe. An important inclusion in the exhibition is Frink’s first public commission, a concrete sculpture of St John Bosco (1952), which, until recently, was deemed lost or destroyed. It turned up earlier this year after the current owner realised it might be a Frink and contacted Beaux Arts gallery to look into the matter. Although it has lost one of the three original figures, the piece has otherwise fared well and, following conservation, stands proud as a testament to the sculptor’s skill: at the time of the commission, Frink was still a student at Chelsea School of Art. Another highlight of the exhibition is the recreation of Frink’s final studio, at Woolland in Dorset, based on extensive photographic documentation. Alongside her crates and tools and plasters, there’s the chair that the subjects of her portraits, including Alec Guinness, once sat on, and, to complete the evocation, a soundtrack of music is being played, comprising classical pieces known to have been favoured by the artist. Studio International spoke to the exhibition curators about Frink’s unusual working process and the bringing together of this major survey show. Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham Lakeside Arts 25 November 2015 – 28 February 2016.
Interview by ANNA McNAY
Filmed by MARTIN KENNEDY
- published: 30 Mar 2023
- views: 695
4:36
SEVEN WONDERS - A Significant Collection of Seven Sculptural Works by Dame Elisabeth Frink
In this extended film, Dreweatts Picture Specialist Francesca Whitham shares her passion and insights into this significant collection of seven works by Dame El...
In this extended film, Dreweatts Picture Specialist Francesca Whitham shares her passion and insights into this significant collection of seven works by Dame Elisabeth Frink coming to auction at Dreweatts on 15 March 2023.
Born in 1930 and growing up in rural Suffolk in England, Dame Elisabeth was directly influenced by her childhood experiences exploring the countryside and developed a deep connection and appreciation of nature from her observations of the innate behaviours and temperaments of the wildlife and farm animals that surrounded her.
‘If one could say I have a religion it is that man should be free in his spirit. That’s very important to me. And that applies to animals as well.' - Elisabeth Frink, 1991.
This idyllic childhood and these naturalistic subjects were to serve as core inspirations throughout her career - though they would often become juxtaposed alongside her other very real childhood experience - that of the backdrop of World War II.
'I've had this flight dream from the time I was very young. It's to do with birds flying, planes crashing – big monstrous things flying, sometimes with a man in them' - Elisabeth Frink, 1994.
This exceptional collection of works - including Standing Horse, the last known work by Dame Elisabeth Frink before she passed away in 1993 - provides a wonderful overview of her unmistakable work and career as well as fascinating insights into her profound outlook and spirit.
‘Elisabeth Frink is the real thing – a sculptor of large powers essaying large themes’ - Hilton Kramer, 1979.
To find out more about the auction on 15 March 2023 please visit:
https://auctions.dreweatts.com/auctions/8477/drewea1-10351
IMAGE, MUSIC & ARCHIVE & CREDITS
In memory of Ken Cook, and with special thanks to A Christopher
FOOTAGE Sheep Meadow Grazing Grass | Yuval Alani | ARTGRID 428630
FOOTAGE Tree Sun Beam | Yuval Alani | ARTGRID 428547
FOOTAGE Trees England Sun Beam | Yuval Alani | ARTGRID 428636
IMAGE Troops from the Royal Berkshire Regiment manning trenches near Mouchin, 29 November 1939 | Source - IWM | Public Domain via Picryl
IMAGE Officers of the Royal Ulster Rifles awaiting evacuation at Bray Dunes near Dunkirk, May 1940 | Dunkirk 1940 HU1135 | Source - IWM | Public Domain via Picryl
IMAGE A French farmer driving a horse-drawn water cart waves his cap at the crew of a Light Tank Mk VI of 13/18th Royal Hussars, near Arras, 12 October 1939 | Source - IWM | Public Domain via Picryl
IMAGE 'Mark', a dog ammunition carrier, at work with British troops in Eastern Command | Source - IWM | Public Domain via Picryl
IMAGE Great Ormond Street Hospital, London | © David Hawgood | Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons and Geograph
IMAGE Arthur Brown and John Alcock, 28 May 1919 | Unknown author, Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
IMAGE Ken Cook & Goggle Head II (Teeth) by Dame Elisabeth Frink | © Steve Russell Studios & Courtesy of A Christopher & Pangolin
IMAGE Ken Cook, Elisabeth Frink Macau in 1989 | © Photography Mike Csaky | Courtesy of A Christopher & Pangolin
MUSIC The Last Hero | Created by Veacesslav Dragon | Artlist
MUSIC Silhouette | Created by Ardie Son | Artlist
https://wn.com/Seven_Wonders_A_Significant_Collection_Of_Seven_Sculptural_Works_By_Dame_Elisabeth_Frink
In this extended film, Dreweatts Picture Specialist Francesca Whitham shares her passion and insights into this significant collection of seven works by Dame Elisabeth Frink coming to auction at Dreweatts on 15 March 2023.
Born in 1930 and growing up in rural Suffolk in England, Dame Elisabeth was directly influenced by her childhood experiences exploring the countryside and developed a deep connection and appreciation of nature from her observations of the innate behaviours and temperaments of the wildlife and farm animals that surrounded her.
‘If one could say I have a religion it is that man should be free in his spirit. That’s very important to me. And that applies to animals as well.' - Elisabeth Frink, 1991.
This idyllic childhood and these naturalistic subjects were to serve as core inspirations throughout her career - though they would often become juxtaposed alongside her other very real childhood experience - that of the backdrop of World War II.
'I've had this flight dream from the time I was very young. It's to do with birds flying, planes crashing – big monstrous things flying, sometimes with a man in them' - Elisabeth Frink, 1994.
This exceptional collection of works - including Standing Horse, the last known work by Dame Elisabeth Frink before she passed away in 1993 - provides a wonderful overview of her unmistakable work and career as well as fascinating insights into her profound outlook and spirit.
‘Elisabeth Frink is the real thing – a sculptor of large powers essaying large themes’ - Hilton Kramer, 1979.
To find out more about the auction on 15 March 2023 please visit:
https://auctions.dreweatts.com/auctions/8477/drewea1-10351
IMAGE, MUSIC & ARCHIVE & CREDITS
In memory of Ken Cook, and with special thanks to A Christopher
FOOTAGE Sheep Meadow Grazing Grass | Yuval Alani | ARTGRID 428630
FOOTAGE Tree Sun Beam | Yuval Alani | ARTGRID 428547
FOOTAGE Trees England Sun Beam | Yuval Alani | ARTGRID 428636
IMAGE Troops from the Royal Berkshire Regiment manning trenches near Mouchin, 29 November 1939 | Source - IWM | Public Domain via Picryl
IMAGE Officers of the Royal Ulster Rifles awaiting evacuation at Bray Dunes near Dunkirk, May 1940 | Dunkirk 1940 HU1135 | Source - IWM | Public Domain via Picryl
IMAGE A French farmer driving a horse-drawn water cart waves his cap at the crew of a Light Tank Mk VI of 13/18th Royal Hussars, near Arras, 12 October 1939 | Source - IWM | Public Domain via Picryl
IMAGE 'Mark', a dog ammunition carrier, at work with British troops in Eastern Command | Source - IWM | Public Domain via Picryl
IMAGE Great Ormond Street Hospital, London | © David Hawgood | Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons and Geograph
IMAGE Arthur Brown and John Alcock, 28 May 1919 | Unknown author, Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons
IMAGE Ken Cook & Goggle Head II (Teeth) by Dame Elisabeth Frink | © Steve Russell Studios & Courtesy of A Christopher & Pangolin
IMAGE Ken Cook, Elisabeth Frink Macau in 1989 | © Photography Mike Csaky | Courtesy of A Christopher & Pangolin
MUSIC The Last Hero | Created by Veacesslav Dragon | Artlist
MUSIC Silhouette | Created by Ardie Son | Artlist
- published: 14 Feb 2023
- views: 773
2:34
Elizabeth Frink's Christ - Art Chats
Elizabeth Frink has been described as a sculptor that expressed "the nature of Man; the 'horseness' of horses; and the divine in human form".
Continuing our se...
Elizabeth Frink has been described as a sculptor that expressed "the nature of Man; the 'horseness' of horses; and the divine in human form".
Continuing our series highlighting, Women artists in our collection, Assistant Curator Miriam O'Connor Perks looks at Frink's statue, 'Christ' [1983).
Elisabeth Frink (1930 - 1993), Christ, 1983, Provided to Pallant House Gallery in accordance with the wishes of the artist's late son, Lin Jammet, (2020)
https://wn.com/Elizabeth_Frink's_Christ_Art_Chats
Elizabeth Frink has been described as a sculptor that expressed "the nature of Man; the 'horseness' of horses; and the divine in human form".
Continuing our series highlighting, Women artists in our collection, Assistant Curator Miriam O'Connor Perks looks at Frink's statue, 'Christ' [1983).
Elisabeth Frink (1930 - 1993), Christ, 1983, Provided to Pallant House Gallery in accordance with the wishes of the artist's late son, Lin Jammet, (2020)
- published: 15 Jun 2022
- views: 229