The British Library The British Library http://sounds.bl.uk/JISC ASR IPR STATUS LIST.xls Frink, Elisabeth. (1 of 7). National Life Story Collection: Artists' Lives C466/12 Part 1. Elizabeth Frink's (EF) early life in rural Suffolk; family origins in Canada, Ireland, India; father's army career; schooling and early drawing; relations with brother; her own early character; childhood in Second World War; taught painting by Rodney Fenwick; relations with father; father's service in Trieste; visits to Venice; schooling with art training including introduction to Rodin. Attendance at Guildford art school, teaching there of Trevor Tennant and Harry Phillips, and student life. Attendance at Chelsea School of Art; teaching of Willi Soukop and Bernard Meadows; acquaintance with John Berger, Robert Clatworthy, Julian Trevelyan and Ceri Richards. Exhibition at Beaux Arts Gallery with Helen Lessore; sale of bird sculpture to Tate Gallery; formation of Geometry of Fear group; acquaintance with Lynn Chadwick, Douglas Glass (photographer), Kenneth Armitage, F.E. McWilliam, Reg Butler, family of Augustus John, Herbert Read, Graham Sutherland. Friendships with Rodrigo Moynihan, Eleanor Bellingham-Smith, Michael Andrews, John Minton, Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud, George Melly, Julian Bream; character of the group and its work. Visit to Paris and reminiscence of Alberto Giacometti. Influence of Rodin, Giacometti (reference to his work method), friendship with Henry Moore; acquaintance with Germaine Richier and César; EF's social life at the time. Art 1992-12-28 and 1992-12-29 Interviewee's home sound Frink, Elisabeth, 1930-1993 (speaker, female) Kent, Sarah, (speaker, female) 00:27:20 48000 24 00:27:20 48000 24