Mary Audsley

Mary Audsley
Born 1919
Eton, Berkshire
Died 2008 (aged 88–89)
Nationality British
Education Westminster School of Art
Known for Painting and sculpture


Mary C. Audsley (1919-2008) was a British painter and sculptor.

Biography

Audsley was born at Eton in Berkshire. Audsley studied at the Westminster School of Art between 1934 and 1938, where she was taught by Eric Schilsky, Mark Gertler and Bernard Meninsky.[1] Soon after she graduated Audsley began exhibiting with the London Group and at the Royal Academy.[2]

Audsley had been accepted for a teaching post at Westminster but the School of Art closed at the start of World War II before she could take up the post.[1] During the War, Audsley enrolled in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force but was invalided out in 1943 and spent seven months in hospital.[2] Further periods of ill-health, and family responsibilities, greatly limited her artistic career and it was only in the 1970s that she again became artistically active on a regular basis.[1]

Audsley worked in several media including carvings, ceramics, collage and print-making. A solo exhibition of her work was held at Sally Hunter Fine Art in 1990.[2] Contributions by Audsley formed the bulk of a group show, Sculptors in Two Dimensions, organised by Sally Hunter in 2003.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 David Buckman (1998). Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 1, A to L. Art Dictionaries Ltd. ISBN 0 95326 095 X.
  2. 1 2 3 Frances Spalding (1990). 20th Century Painters and Sculptors. Antique Collectors' Club. ISBN 1 85149 106 6.
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