Frink biography
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Public Statues and Sculpture Association
Sculptor and printmaker, born in Thurlow, Suffolk. She studied at Guildford School of Art, 1947–49, and then Chelsea School of Art, 1949–53, under Willi Soukop and Bernard Meadows.
Frink biography
She taught at Chelsea School of Art, 1953–61, at St Martin’s School of Art, 1954–62, and at the Royal College of Art, 1965–67. Her first solo exhibition (following some early shows with the London Group) was at St George’s Gallery, London, 1955, and her first overseas exhibition was in 1959 at the Bertha Schaefer Gallery, New York; she subsequently exhibited worldwide.
She had a retrospective at the Royal Academy, 1985, and a memorial exhibition at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Bretton Hall, 1994. Frink was elected an Associate Royal Academician in 1972 and full RA in 1977; she was also a Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors and was awarded the society’s Gold Medal for Sculpture in 1993.
She was appointed CBE in 1969, and was made DBE in 1982 and