School of Art

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School of Art
Aberystwyth University
Buarth Mawr
Aberystwyth
Ceredigion
SY23 1NG

Tel: +44 (0)1970 622460

Fax: +44 (0)1970 622461

Email: artschool@aber.ac.uk


Display artist/maker:

Agatha Walker

Born: c1888, UK, England, Norfolk, Old Walsingham   Died: 1980

Ceramicist and sculptor. Agatha Walker was born in Norfolk and studied sculpture around 1911. She was active in the 1920s and 1930s and was based in Oxfordshire where she produced ceramic figurines of actors and actresses in London stage productions. In The Studio of 1931 she is mentioned as having made figures from The Beggars' Opera modelled in plaster and covered in wax and painted. She exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy between 1927 and 1936.

Objects in the collections associated with this artist/maker

Polly Peachum C444 Ceramics




 
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