Edith Elizabeth Jukes (19 December 1910 – 2006), known as Beth Jukes and Betty Jukes was a British artist and sculptor.

Biography

Jukes was born at

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in India. Her parents were Gertrude Elizabeth King and Captain Andrew Monro Jukes, a military doctor who died in 1918. Jukes was educated in London at the Norland Place School in Kensington and studied at the

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in London from 1928 to 1932, where

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was among her teachers. During

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Jukes worked with evacuees in Scotland before returning to London to train as a nurse. She qualified as a state registered nurse at

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in 1945. Jukes taught sculpture at the

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School of Art and the

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from 1947 until 1975. Working in clay, wood, stone, bronze and plaster, Jukes created busts, reliefs and statuettes and between 1935 and 1966 she exhibited works at the

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in London. Jukes became a member of the

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in 1948 and was elected a Fellow of the Society in 1961 and was also a member of the Society of Portrait Sculptors.

References

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