Dame Elizabeth Frink RA

About Dame Elizabeth Frink RA

Woman of the Year Award
Bronze
On Loan from the Women of the Year Luncheon

Dame Elizabeth Frink, one of Britain's leading and foremost celebrated artists, created the magificant eagle that is presented to the Winners of the Women of The Year Awards. The statue was given to the Women of the Year Lunch in 1987.

Easter Head I [1989]
Bronze with brown patina, 49.5 x 51 x 33.5 cms
On Loan from the artist

For nearly thirty years, Elisabeth Frink made sculptures of monumental heads, capturing both the vulnerability and strength of human nature, the compassion and the cruelty.  This work is entitled 'Easter Head' since it was made at Easter time and the artist felt that it embodied a certain spiritual quality.  She wrote: "What I have tried to make clear in my sculpture is the way in which feelings, expression, even force and energy, should be below the surface.  The outer skin may define more or less conventional features, but a second look should indicate the complex strains of nerve endings and the anticipatory reflexes of something that is about to happen."

This work was exhibited at Agnew's Gallery, London in November 2004 as part of the 'Paintings from New Hall' exhibition.