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Acheson, Anne [1882-1962. Ireland UK. Sculptor]
Acheson, Anne [1882-1962. Ireland UK. Sculptor]
Anne Crawford Acheson [commonly known as Anne Acheson] was born in Portadown, County Armagh, Ireland [now Northern Ireland] on 5 August 1882. After attending Belfast Municipal Technical Institute, she won a scholarship to study sculpture under Édouard Lantéri at the Royal College of Art in London, where she was awarded her diploma in 1910. She subsequently embarked on a career as a sculptor. She created work in stone, metal wood and concrete. She made numerous figurines, portrait busts, and garden statuary. She also modelled figures for the Royal Worcester Porcelain Company and car mascots. Between 1910 and 1913 she taught in a secondary school in Putney, London.
During World War One, she volunteered her services to the Surgical Requisites Association at Mulberry Walk in Chelsea, London. With fellow sculptor Elinor Jessie Marie Hallé (1856-1926) worked on the development of anatomically-accurate plaster of Paris and papier-mâché casts as splints for broken limbs sustained by soldiers in action.
Following the she resumed her activities as a sculptor. She exhibited extensively, including at the Grosvenor Gallery, International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Royal academy, Royal Society of British Artists, Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, Royal Miniature Society, and Society of Women Artists in London; Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Fine Arts; Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool; Manchester City Art Gallery; Royal Ulster Academy of Arts in Belfast; Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin; the Paris Salon; and at galleries in Italy, Sweden, Belgium, the USA, Canada and New Zealand. She also participated in the 11th exhibition of the Arts & Crafts Exhibition Society in London in 1916, the British Empire Exhibition of 1924 and 1925, the Palace of Arts Empire Exhibition in Scotland in 1938.
She was elected a member of the Society of Women Artists (SWA) in 1923 and an Associate member of Royal Society of British Sculptors the same year. In 1938 she was the first woman to be elected a Fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculptors. She also received the Feodora Gleichen Memorial Fund Award in 1938.
During World War Two Acheson worked as a precision engineer and draftswoman and served in the Red Cross. She died in Lagan Valley Hospital, Lisburn, on 13 March 1962
During World War One, she volunteered her services to the Surgical Requisites Association at Mulberry Walk in Chelsea, London. With fellow sculptor Elinor Jessie Marie Hallé (1856-1926) worked on the development of anatomically-accurate plaster of Paris and papier-mâché casts as splints for broken limbs sustained by soldiers in action.
Following the she resumed her activities as a sculptor. She exhibited extensively, including at the Grosvenor Gallery, International Society of Sculptors, Painters and Gravers, Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Royal academy, Royal Society of British Artists, Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours, Royal Miniature Society, and Society of Women Artists in London; Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Fine Arts; Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool; Manchester City Art Gallery; Royal Ulster Academy of Arts in Belfast; Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin; the Paris Salon; and at galleries in Italy, Sweden, Belgium, the USA, Canada and New Zealand. She also participated in the 11th exhibition of the Arts & Crafts Exhibition Society in London in 1916, the British Empire Exhibition of 1924 and 1925, the Palace of Arts Empire Exhibition in Scotland in 1938.
She was elected a member of the Society of Women Artists (SWA) in 1923 and an Associate member of Royal Society of British Sculptors the same year. In 1938 she was the first woman to be elected a Fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculptors. She also received the Feodora Gleichen Memorial Fund Award in 1938.
During World War Two Acheson worked as a precision engineer and draftswoman and served in the Red Cross. She died in Lagan Valley Hospital, Lisburn, on 13 March 1962
Photograph of Anne Crawford Acheson
Bibliography
1. Anne Acheson A Sculptor in War and Peace. Lurgan: Craigavon Museum Services,, 201
2. Gray, Sara. A Biographical Dictionary of 1,000 British Women Artists in the British Decorative Arts. Oakamoor: Dark River, 2019
3. Llewellyn, David. The First Lady of Mulberry Walk: The Life and Times of Irish Sculptress Anne Acheson Leicester: Matador, 2010.
4. Snoddy, Theo. Dictionary of Irish Artists 20th Century. Dublin: Merlin Publishing, 2nd edition, 2002
1. Anne Acheson A Sculptor in War and Peace. Lurgan: Craigavon Museum Services,, 201
2. Gray, Sara. A Biographical Dictionary of 1,000 British Women Artists in the British Decorative Arts. Oakamoor: Dark River, 2019
3. Llewellyn, David. The First Lady of Mulberry Walk: The Life and Times of Irish Sculptress Anne Acheson Leicester: Matador, 2010.
4. Snoddy, Theo. Dictionary of Irish Artists 20th Century. Dublin: Merlin Publishing, 2nd edition, 2002
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Donna Deeney. Portadown honours Anne Acheson who invented plaster cast for bones. Belfast Telegraph
Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain & Ireland 1851-1951
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