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FRANK, Audrey

Born: 1905 03 24
Died: 1990 12 ??

Artist


Born 24 March 1905 (Durban) Died Dec 1990 (Durban)

Worked at the Ceramic Studio/Linnware: 1 Aug 1927 - 3 April 1932. Later worked part-time: 1932-1952

Educated at Ladies College, Durban, 1912-20. Trained at Durban School of Art, 1924-1927; and Reimann School, London (1938) under Austin Cooper and Eric Fraser. (H. Jeppe, South African artists, 1963, p. 32). Employed at Olifantsfontein from 1927 to replace Marjorie Johnstone. Left the Studio to teach art at the Durban School of Art(1932-6) (The Common Room Magazine, 1933-1936). She later taught in Johannesburg (1937), Port Elizabeth School of Art (1939), School of Art Bloemfontein (1940-1944), She was Principal of the Frank Joubert Art School 1945-1956. Russel's Girls School Pietermaritzburg and Northlands Girls' School Durban (1957), Technical College, Durban (1958-1966). ML Sultan college, Durban (1970-1971). (Heymans)

Works
Individual tiles: Johannesburg Railway Station: tea room tiles, 1932 Including the set "Ships that called at the Cape" and "Nursery rhymes"
Design for relief panel for mantelpiece ("Sunlawns") 1931
Exhibited: Pretoria Music Festival, 1937, No. 36 (Pretoria Music Festival catalogue)
"Pan" mask for waterspout at "Sunlawns" swimming pool
Tile panels: Groote Schuur: Children's wards (Children's nursery rhymes English and Afrikaans) 1934-5
uMhlali Post Office (Zulu feast dance; Zulu wedding dance)
Ngqeleni Post Office 1937 Bookends. 1929 (Diary)

The copies of the pastel done by Audrey Frank in 1942 were sent to us by Daphne Buckerfield, we have included both of them as they have slightly different lighting.

List of projects

With photographs
With notes

House R Cullinan: Sunlawns: n.d.. Olifantsfontein, Gauteng - Artist relief panel
Post Office: 1937. uMhlali, KwaZulu-Natal - Artist tiled panel

Books citing FRANK

Hillebrand, Melanie. 1991. The women of Olifantsfontein - South African studio ceramics : Die vroue van Olifantsfontein - Suid-Afrikaanse ateljee-keramiek . Pretoria: South African National Gallery. pp 14