Mary Audsley

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Mary Audsley
Born1919
Died2008 (aged 8889)
NationalityBritish
Known forPainting 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] [3]

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 printmaking. 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]

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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.
  3. Alan Windsor (2003). British Sculptors of the Twentieth Century. Routledge.