Biography for Dame Elisabeth Frink (1930 - 1993)

Career

During her lifetime she was awarded many public commissions to create sculpture for public spaces and buildings worldwide.
Her sculptures embody the great themes that she explored throughout her career; the ambiguities of human relationships, injustice and impermanence that also have such impact on the animal world and the earth.
Using the forms of men, animals and birds, she employed their shapes as vehicles to convey emotion, vulnerability, aggression. 

Elisabeth Frink always retained her interest in figurative work. She continually extended her sculptural ideas using naturalistic imagery, while exploring the possibilities of her chosen medium - plaster cast in bronze. 

Her reputation continues to grow alongside the recognition of her contribution to 20th century sculptural language.