Woking, The Lightbox, 2D:3D – Discover the Art of Sculpture: Sculpture & Sculptors’ Drawings from The Ingram Collection, 1 February – 1 March 2008;
London, Canary Wharf, Bronze Sculptures from The Ingram Collection, 16 September – 15 November 2013;
Woking, The Lightbox, The Ingram Collection: The Impact of War, 15 October 2014 – 4 January 2015;
Aberystwyth, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, The Human Face, 27 January – 12 March 2016;
Bristol, RWA, Frink-Blow-Lawson, 16 December 2017 – 11 March 2018;
London, The Royal Society of Sculptors, 14 May – 14 July 2018;
Norwich, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Elisabeth Frink: Humans and Other Animals, 13 October 2018 – 24 February 2019
Literature:
Bryan Robertson (intro.), Elisabeth Frink Sculpture, Catalogue Raisonne, Harpvale, Salisbury, 1984 (another cast illustrated, no. 284, p. 198-99);
A. Ratuszniak (ed.), Elisabeth Frink Catalogue Raisonne of Sculpture 1947-1993, London, 2013 (illustrated p. 160, no. FCR322; another cast illustrated, p. 24)
Dame Elisabeth Frink created her series of large male heads, entitled In Memoriam, as a tribute to those who have suffered for their beliefs. This sculpture, the first work of the series, is strong and solemn with its fixed gaze. Frink’s famous Tribute Heads, created in 1974, had also been made as a tribute to those who suffered for their beliefs. But, the bronze heads of the In Memoriam series which Frink produced in 1981 are far rougher in texture than their smooth and serene 1974 brothers, conveying the gritty reality of those victims’ experiences. Unlike Frink’s earlier Tribute series of head sculptures where all the eyes are shut, the eyes of each of the In Memoriam heads are open; they have suffered and survived.
