Dorset County Museum has announced an exhibition to display the works of Elisabeth Frink.
The museum in Dorchester will showcase more than 80 sculptures, drawings and prints dedicated to the sculptor from Saturday, December 2.
The exhibition will be showing work from Dame Elisabeth's time in Dorset for the first time since her death 30 years ago.
The works include working plasters that informed the final bronze sculptures that have never been on display before.
Dame Elisabeth is known as being one of the most celebrated sculptors of recent times, and was the first woman to be elected as a Royal Academician in 1973.
The artist had produced more than 400 sculptures throughout her career, with a significant part of those produced at her Woolland studio in Dorset between 1976 and 1993.
As part of this new exhibition, her Dorset studio will be recreated featuring tools and the working plasters that formed the basis of some of her most well-known bronze sculptures, giving visitors a unique opportunity to step inside and see how one of Britain’s foremost artists worked.
Following the dying wishes of her son, Lin Jammet, the Frink Estate and archive was given to the nation. As a result of this, Dorset Museum received more than 300 pieces of work.
A spokesperson from the museum said “As well as understanding her artistic process, visitors will get a chance to explore the influence of her private Dorset life, with a selection of personal possessions on display including letters and photographs.”
Elizabeth Selby, director of Collections and Public Engagement at Dorset Museum, said: “Elisabeth Frink was an extraordinary artist who explored what it meant to be human through her work. This exhibition will portray Frink in a more intimate light, revealing her inner world and the major themes she explored in her sculpture, prints and drawings.
"We are thrilled to be able to display more of the works we acquired from the Elisabeth Frink Estate in 2020, and explore Frink’s connections with Dorset, where she lived and worked from 1976 until her death in 1993,” she added.
The exhibition will run until Sunday, April 21. During the exhibition, there will also be a talk held by Annette Ratuszniak, who worked with the Elisabeth Frink Estate and Archive from 1995 to 2019, at the musuem on Thursday, February 15 from 7pm to 8.30pm about the life of Dame Frink.
For more information visit: Dorsetmuseum.org
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