Christine Gregory

Christine Gregory
Born1879
St Pancras, London
Died10 February 1963
Hampstead, London
NationalityBritish
Known forSculpture, pottery

Christine Gregory (1879–10 February 1963) was a British sculptor and potter.[1] She was among the first women elected as a member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors.[2]

Biography

Gregory was born and lived in London.[3] Her father was a mineralogist from London, while her mother was from Berkshire, and together they raised a family of seven.[4] Gregory taught model making at the Hammersmith School of Art from 1918 to 1937 while working as a sculptor and potter.[3] Working in bronze, terracotta and plaster, she created busts, statuettes, plaques and earthenware pieces.[4] In 1922, she was among the first women elected as a member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors and became a Fellow of that society in 1948.[2][5][1] Gregory won several awards and medals, including the Feodora Gleichen Award in 1945 for her coloured plaster sculpture A Child of Africa.[5][6]

Between 1900 and 1949, Gregory exhibited approximately 37 works at the Royal Academy in London and 24 works with the Society of Women Artists.[4] She also exhibited at the Paris Salon, the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, with the Royal Society of Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers, and in Scotland at the Royal Scottish Academy and the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts as well as in Canada.[6][3]

Examples of her work are held by the Ulster Museum in Belfast and the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b University of Glasgow History of Art / HATII (2011). "Miss Christine Gregory". Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain & Ireland 1851–1951. Retrieved 28 February 2020.
  2. ^ a b "The Royal British Society of Sculptors Archive". Community Archives and Heritage Group. 12 November 2018. Retrieved 28 February 2020.
  3. ^ a b c James Mackay (1977). The Dictionary of Western Sculptors in Bronze. Antique Collectors' Club.
  4. ^ a b c Sara Gray (2019). British Women Artists. A Biographical Dictionary of 1000 Women Artists in the British Decorative Arts. Dark River. ISBN 978-1-911121-63-3.
  5. ^ a b Rosamund Lily West (13 June 2019). "Uncovering the life and work of forgotten women sculptors". Museum Crush. Retrieved 28 February 2020.
  6. ^ a b c David Buckman (2006). Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 1, A to L. Art Dictionaries Ltd. ISBN 0-953260-95-X.