Mary C. Audsley (1919-2008) was a British painter and sculptor.

Biography

Audsley was born at

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in Berkshire. Audsley studied at the

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between 1934 and 1938, where she was taught by

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, Mark Gertler and

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. Soon after she graduated, Audsley began exhibiting with the

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and at the Royal Academy. Audsley had been accepted for a teaching post at Westminster but the School of Art closed at the start of World War II before she could take up the post. During the War, Audsley enrolled in the

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but was invalided out in 1943 and spent seven months in hospital. Further periods of ill-health, and family responsibilities, greatly limited her artistic career and it was only in the 1970s that she again became artistically active on a regular basis. Audsley worked in several media including carvings, ceramics, collage and printmaking. A solo exhibition of her work was held at Sally Hunter Fine Art in 1990. Contributions by Audsley formed the bulk of a group show, ''Sculptors in Two Dimensions'', organised by Sally Hunter in 2003.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Audsley, Mary 1919 births 2008 deaths 20th-century British painters 20th-century English women artists Alumni of the Westminster School of Art English women painters People from Eton, Berkshire Women's Auxiliary Air Force airwomen