Date
Time

6.30 - 8.30pm

Address

Royal Society of Sculptors, Dora House, 108 Old Brompton Road, South Kensington, London SW7 3RA

Tickets from

Free

Description

We are pleased to announce our next ‘Reintroducing our Pioneering Women’ event. The Society’s ‘Pioneering Women’ project aims to shine a light on the lives, careers and legacies of some of our early female members. This event will focus on Lady Kathleen Scott FRBS (1878 - 1947).

Kathleen Scott was famous as the grieving widow of Captain Robert Falcon Scott, the Antarctic explorer. However, she had a long and successful career as a sculptor. She studied at the Slade School of Art in London and also with Rodin at the Academie Colarossi in Paris. Amongst her works are two versions of her late husband, Captain Scott, one in Waterlow Place in London and one in Christchurch, New Zealand. During the First World War, she turned her talents in sculpture to medical use whilst working at Queen’s hospital, Sidcup, under the plastic surgeon Dr. Harold Gillies.

At the event Kathleen Scott’s grand-daughter Louisa Young, author of several books including, ‘A great task of happiness, the life of Kathleen Scott’, will speak about the life and legacy of her grandmother. There will also be an opportunity to see archive material relating to Scott and the other early Pioneering Women.

Join us on 12 November to hear more about Scott’s remarkable career. This event has been made possible by a grant from ARLIS, the Art Libraries Society.

Please note that this event will be recorded.

Image Credit: Kathleen Scott by Bassano Ltd © National Portrait Gallery, London