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March 2020

Glimmer of Hope Naomi Blake

From the archive: Pioneering Women

Naomi Blake FRBS (1924-2018)

Naomi Blake FRBS (1924-2018) became an Associate member of the Society in 1979 and a Fellow in 1993. Born in Czechoslovakia in 1924 into a large Jewish family, she spent the last nine months of the war in Auschwitz. During a march through a forest, she escaped with friends whilst being shot at. Her

Almuth Tebbenhoff, Vice President

Some Lockdown Thoughts

By Almuth Tebbenhoff, Vice President

Like many of us I thought at first ‘oh great, I can work to my heart’s content, have exquisite silence and potter around in the garden - all my favourite things'. Thoughts such as ‘we had it coming for plundering and destroying our earth’ were also in the mix a little further to the back. The

Bill Price

Not much of a studio, more my older son’s bedroom with him in Chicago…

By Bill Price, Trustee

Bill Price locked down In my long engineering career I have never really worked from home. I’m now getting the hang of it and I’m noticing a few interesting points. I’d say I’m busy in three areas of activity which are: taking to work colleagues, staying in touch with immediate family and helping

Article: International Women’s Day 2020

By ROSAMUND LILY WEST, PAUL MELLON RESEARCH CURATOR

International Women’s Day 2020 For International Women’s Day, I wanted to celebrate the women in the ‘Pioneering women at the heart of the Royal Society of Sculptors’ project, and the way women changed the perception of who – or what – a sculptor is. The project, funded by the Paul Mellon Centre,