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Elisabeth Frink: A View from Within

Elisabeth Frink with her Goggle and Tribute heads at Woolland House grounds, in 1984.

Dec 2, 2023 – Apr 21, 2024
High W St, Dorchester DT1 1XA, United Kingdom

Shortly before Dame Elisabeth Frink’s ninth birthday, in 1939, England went to war with Germany. Frink was growing up in Suffolk, where a military airfield saw bombers coming and going, and before attending the Guildford School of Art in London, in 1946, she drew wounded birds and falling men. Throughout her career, Frink, who died in 1993, gravitated to outdoor sculpture. Her fascination with the human form was lasting. Frink’s bronze figures, she said in 1984, “focused on the male because to me he is a subtle combination of sensuality and strength with vulnerability.” This marvelous retrospective puts 80 sculptures, drawings, and prints on view. —Elena Clavarino

Photo: © Christine Fauto/courtesy of Tully and Bree Jammet and the Dorset History Center