ABSTRACT
Politically committed sculptor; teacher. She studied painting and sculpture at the Regent Street Polytechnic (1922-4) and then at the RCA. She was Secretary of the Artists International Association (1934-6). A member of the Hogarth Group, the Communist circle in the AIA, she was a strongly committed artist politically, and made a pole topped with a clenched fist for the banner of the British Battalion of the International Brigade 165(1936). She was a member of the Artists' Refugee Committee (1939), helping artists to escape from Nazi persecution. The bronze New World (For Liberty) (1942) was shown at an AIA exhibition 'For Liberty' (1943) in John Lewis's basement in Oxford Street, and consisted of a group of four heads of children gazing hopefully upwards. Girls in the Wind (c.1954) and Stretching Figure (1961), both bronzes, are characteristic nonpolitical works. She taught sculpture at Homerton College, Cambridge, 1949-64. In 1960 she had a solo exhibition at the Zwemmer Gallery, where a Retrospective was held in 1965.
