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Elisabeth Koster Great Britain |
* 04.08.1926
† May 2016
A.R.C.A. (Associate of the Royal College of Art, London)
A.R.B.S. (Associate of the Royal Society of British Sculptors)
Education
- 1942 - 45: Kingston School of Art, Kingston-upon-Thames
- 1945 - 47: Royal College of Art, London, Diplomas in Sculpture
- 1947 - 51: Assistant to Barney Seale FRBS, FRSA, working for the Festival of Britain
- 1953: Ottilie Helen Wallace Prize, Royal Scottish Academy
- 1953 - 57: Qualified Teacher of art in Scotland
- 1957 - 75: Principal teacher of Art
- 1965 - 67: Member of the Working Party for VI th Year Studies in Art
- 1968 - 71: Member of Working Party for Art in Secondary Schools
- 1966 - 75: Member for O Level and VI th Year Studies in Art
- 1967 - 70: Member of Art panel to the Scottish Examinations Board
- 1973 - 80: Part-time lecturer in wood carving, Edinburgh College of Art
- 1979 - 83: Lecturer in ceramic sculpture, Adult Education Classes
- 1979: A. Cameron Miller Award, Scottish Society of Women Artists
- 1979: Elected Assiociate of the Royal Society of Women Artists
- 1982: Vice President of the Scottish Society of Women Artists
- 1986: Worked with George Mancini restoring the orinal plaster cast of Eros by Alfred Gilbert
- 1987: Worked with George Mancini restoring plaster casts from the Duke of Clarence's tomb, St-George's Chapel, Windsor
Works exhibited
- Royal Scottish Academy SSWA
- 1979: Henderson Gallery
- 1979 - 82: Chessel Group, Edinburgh Festival Fringe
- 1980: R.B.S. Scottish Members Exhibition, Art Space Gallery, Aberdeen
- 1983: The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
- 1988: R.B.S. Members Exhibition, New College, Oxford
- 1989: R.B.S. Members Exhibition, West of England Gallery, Bristol
- 1990 - 91: Work Shop Gallery, Sutton Bonington
- 1991 - 92: Leicester Gallery, Leicester
- 1992 - 93: Ferrier Gallery, Staunton Harrold
- 1996: Penn Club, London, Inlaid Lino Panels
- 1997: Bartlemas Chapel, Oxford, Inlaid Lino Panels
- 2002: FIDEM, Paris, Apocalypse Medals
Commissions
- 1961: 7'x16' inlaid lino mural, Ellon Academy Primary School
- 1964: 8'x16' inlaid lino mural, Ellon Academy Secondary School
- 1968: Stations of the Cross, St. Kentigern's Edinburgh
- 1976: Main Tabernacle, St. Kentigern's Edinburgh
- 1978: Relief Statue of St. John Olgilvie, St.Kentigern's Edinburgh
- 1982: Carving presented to Pope John Paul II, by St. Joseph's Hospital Rosewell
- 1985: Bronze St. Anthony for Edinburgh Cathedral
- 1985: Leaping Salmon presented to the Secretary of State for Scotland by N.A.S.C.O.
- 1986: Reliquary to hold St.Andrew's relics, Edinburgh Cathedral
- 1991: Main Tabernacle for Edinburgh Cathedral
- 1997: Tabernacle for Maryvale, Surrey
- 1997: Four lino panels, Nottingham University
- 2002: Statue of St. Leopold Mandic, Franciscan Church