
Coronation Jubilee Sculpture 2013
Rachel Fenner (b.1939)
Sculptor, painter and teacher, born in Scarborough, Yorkshire. She studied at Wimbledon School of Art, 1958–62, then sculpture at Royal College of Art, 1962–6. Won a Sainsbury Award Grant in 1966. From 1966 taught sculpture at Winchester and West Surrey Colleges of Art and Wimbledon School of Art and was a visitor to Royal Academy Schools, 1974–6. Arts Council Major Award in 1976 was among several won. Solo shows included House, 1976; Taranman and DLI Museum and Arts Centre, Durham, both 1978; Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, and Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, both 1981; and Duncan Campbell Contemporary Art, from 1993. Among many commissions were Saxon Column for Hamwick, Southampton, 1989–90, and Earthworks for Castle Park, Bristol, 1991.
Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)