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Oct 30
by Admin in Artists, Artists M - Z, Ovie Usher 0 comments tags: Wave

Oovie Usher

Works Wave2011 steelTorkildsen Way Oovie, an art student at Harlow College won the Barratt Homes Sculpture competition with this design. New housing developments in Harlow provide the sites with new artworks. The Wave is based on the Tsunami. It was fabricated for the estate from her design. She has continued with her studies in art. Having completed her BA in Sculpture at Plymouth University, Truro, Cornwall she has continued there as an art technician in printmaking. Recently qualified as a teacher.(2018). Oovie took part in the Friends of Harlow Sculpture competition for youngsters , when a student at Harlow College in 2011:see Newsletter No 13.
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Oct 02
by Admin in Artists, Artists M - Z, Christopher Salaman 0 comments tags: Mother and Child

Christopher Salaman

Salaman was born in Dorking in 1939. He studied at Camberwell where he was a student of Karel Vogel. He worked in Essex. Works Mother and Child Bronze 1982 39 x 18 x 28 cm Gibberd Gallery Mother and Child was acquired by Harlow District Council in 1984 and sited in Kingsmoor House in the entrance hall. It was rehoused in the Gallery when Kingsmoor House closed.
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Oct 02
by Admin in Artists, Artists M - Z, Betty Rea 0 comments tags: Kore, Stretching

Betty Rea

1904 – 1965 Betty Rea (Bevan), great niece of Dr Barnardo, was born in London. She studied art at Regent Street Polytechnic and continued her training at the RCA in 1924 in sculpture under Moore and Ernest Cole. She married James Rea in 1926 and divorced in 1942.She became a political activist, anti fascism and left wing, and was secretary for the Artists’ International Movement from 1934-6. During the war she taught art to evacuated children in Huntingdonshire making her home with the artist Nan Youngman. They founded the initiative to loan art works to schools. She later taught at Homerton College. She became recognised for her realism in the 50’s and exhibited with Paul Hogarth and Carel Weight in Looking at People, which was sent on to Moscow in 1957.Her works are modelled in clay and then cast up into ciment fondu, bronze or resin. Living close to the sculptor John Mills in Cambridge she was able to see her later works completed by him. Her son Julian is a Trustee for Harlow Art.The two works we have in Harlow Kore (Old Harlow) and Stretching (Gibberd Garden) are girl figures in naturalistic poses. Works KoreBronze 1963Ht 150 cm Kore […]
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