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The American sculptor Mitzi Cunliffe (née Solomon) is renowned for having designed the famous theatrical mask for the BAFTA award. Cunliffe was active as a designer of jewellery, textiles and glass, as well as teaching in later life. In 1955, the same year she designed the famous BAFTA award, she was commissioned to create a major piece for the new Man-Made Fibres building at the University of Leeds. Professor J. B. Speekman, Head of the Department of Textile Industries, required a piece which would reflect the exciting progress in the field of synthetic fibres. Cunliffe submitted drawings and a maquette for a vast pair of hands with textile fibres crossed between them, to be executed in Portland stone. 'Man-Made Fibres' was unveiled by the Duke of Edinburgh when the new building was opened in June 1956.
The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds
Leeds
Title
Man-Made Fibres
Date
1954–1956
Medium
Portland stone
Accession number
LEEUA 1956.013
Acquisition method
commissioned by the University of Leeds, 1956
Work type
Sculpture
Signature/marks description
signed on thumb portion of sculpture: MC
The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds
Parkinson Building, University of Leeds, Woodhouse Lane, Leeds, West Yorkshire LS2 9JT England
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