Anthea Alley (1927–1993) was a British sculptor and artist. She was born in

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in 1927, and lived in Australia and South Africa during the Second World War. In 1944 she moved to London with her family and studied painting at the Regent Street Polytechnic, Chelsea College of Art and the

Royal College of Art The Royal College of Art (RCA) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom, with campuses in South Kensington, Battersea and White City. It is the only entirely postgraduate art and design university in the United Kingdom. It of ...

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Anthea Alley — Arnolfini
accessdate: 23/08/2014 From 1957 she concentrated on sculpture art, producing welded pieces alongside assemblage paintings. In 1960, Alley held her first one-person show at the Molton Gallery and in 1961 she received a

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. She was married to

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, Keeper of the Modern Collection at the Tate Gallery, London. Examples of her work is in the permanent collection of the

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, the Arts Council and Birmingham Art Gallery.

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1927 births 1993 deaths 20th-century British artists 20th-century British women artists Alumni of Chelsea College of Arts Alumni of the Royal College of Art Alumni of the University of Westminster British women sculptors {{UK-sculptor-stub