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Explore the diversity of our members' contemporary practice in Portfolios and find out where they are showing their work at exhibitions across the UK and further afield, in On View.

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Dora Gordine, Javanese Dancer/Oriental Dancer, (1927-28). Royal Society of Sculptors’ archive.

From the archive: Pioneering women

Dora Gordine FRBS (1895-1991)

Dora Gordine became an Associate member of the Society in 1938, and was made a Fellow in 1949. Gordine was born in Latvia, and lived in Estonia, Paris and London. She settled with her second husband Richard Hare in Kingston at her home and studio Dorich House, designed by Gordine herself. Between...

Karin Jonzen, maquette for Mother and child. Installed on the London County Council’s Sydenham Hill estate in 1960.

From the archive: Pioneering women

Karin Jonzen FRBS (1914-1998)

Karin Jonzen FRBS (1914-1998) was born in London of Swedish parents. She studied sculpture at the Slade under A. H. Gerrard. Despite Gerrard’s dislike of Greek sculpture, steering his students instead to Ancient Egyptian works, Jonzen became inspired by the sculpture of Ancient Greece upon visits to...

Emmeline Pankhurst’s gravestone, red sandstone. Brompton cemetery, London

From the archive: Pioneering women

Eva Dorothy Allan FRBS (1892- 1996)

Eva Dorothy Allan FRBS (1892-1996) changed her name to Julian Phelps Allan around 1929. Sources vary as to the explanation for this name change, and reasons suggested vary from wanting to be taken more seriously professionally; wanting to assert her identity publicly as a lesbian; or naming herself...