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Size: 7.9 W x 16.5 H x 9.8 D in
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Dr. Frank Rushbrook CBE (1914-2014) was a pioneer of fire safety research. He pioneered and engineering approach to fire safety, especially on board ships. He was Firemaster of Edinburgh and South-East of Scotland Fire Brigade before retiring in 1970. In the early 1970s, Frank convinced the University of Edinburgh to establish a Department for Fire Engineering – a global first. Frank set about raising the funds to support the appointment of a professor and two lecturers. Under the leadership of Professor Rasbash (with the then Dr Drysdale and Dr Marchant) the team at Edinburgh developed the first postgraduate course in Fire Safety Engineering. The curriculum broke new ground and set academic standards for the subject. This portrait in bronze was commissioned by his family, and is on permanent display in the University of Edinburgh. Having Frank sit for me was one of the highlights of my career. He had a wicked wit and an incredibly sharp mind, so our sessions were punctuated by laughter and great lunches at his favourite Burgess Golf Club. I hope in this portrait I have caught his wisdom, his compassion and his wit.
2014
Bronze on Bronze
One-of-a-kind Artwork
7.9 W x 16.5 H x 9.8 D in
Not Framed
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NEXT SHOWING AT: The Royal Ulster Academy of Arts in Belfast, Oct 18th 2024- Jan 5th 2025. The work selected for this prestigious show ('Hello Dolly') was first shown at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition 2023, then at the Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition 2024. Previous shows include the Cookham Festival Sculpture Garden 2022 and The Scottish Gallery's garden exhibition 2023. My portrait sculpture work is in public and private collections in the UK, with several in the University of Edinburgh's collection and a prominent piece ( Bust of Nelson Mandela) in Glasgow City Chambers. Other works are in France and the US. Work in progress can be seen on this YouTube channel, https://bit.ly/2TWDAlH Other achievements: Autumn 2019 completed a private commission for a statuette in bronze of a pioneer of women’s golf for the R&A Golf Museum in St Andrews. Solo show of a series of paintings at the John Radcliffe, Oxford, based on time spent on the Cote d'Azur. A series of drawings and paintings of Dorset landscapes and sheep paintings was shown at Aspects Gallery in Dorchester, summer 2018. Born in Edinburgh, daughter of a sculptor and stonemason, I was trained in traditional methods at Liverpool and Winchester Schools of Art in the 1970’s - an early winner of the Northern Young Contemporaries Prize awarded by the Whitworth Gallery in Manchester in1975. Winchester had superb visiting and in-house lecturers in the 1970's and I benefited from teaching by William Pye, Norman Ackroyd, Patrick Heron, John Bellany and many others who were both great artists and good teachers. A specialist in portraits from both live sitters and reconstructions, and also a classicist,I created a reconstruction of Alexander the Great in 2018, after a period of extensive research undertaken for an MA in Classics.
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