Elisabeth Frink

Dame Elisabeth Jean Frink was an English sculptor and printmaker. Her Times obituary noted the three essential themes in her work as "the nature of Man; the 'horseness' of horses; and the divine in human form". Frink studied at the Guildford School of Art (now the University for the Creative Arts) (1946–1949), under Willi Soukop, and at the Chelsea School of Art (1949–1953). She was part of a postwar group of British sculptors, dubbed the Geometry of Fear school, that included Reg Butler, Bernard Meadows, Kenneth Armitage and Eduardo Paolozzi. Frink's subject matter included men, birds, dogs, horses and religious motifs, but very seldom any female forms. She became widely known for her public commissions, particularly Risen Christ in Liverpool Cathedral, which was installed one week before her death in 1993. In 1969, she was made a Commander of the British Empire. She was made a Dame in 1982, and in 1992, Queen Elizabeth II made her a Companion of Honor.