Eva Ellenor Benson

สถานที่: Gawler

เกิด: 1875

ความตาย: 1949

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Eva Ellenor Benson was an Australian sculptor who produced portrait studies, figure works and medallions. Benson spent part of her career working in Britain. She was born in Gawler, South Australia and, after training and teaching in Perth, moved to England around 1911. There she studied at the Regent Street Polytechnic and the City and Guilds of London Art School. She worked from a studio at St John's Wood in west London and produced portrait and figure sculptures, statuettes and medallions in bronze, plaster and marble. Benson exhibited works at the Royal Academy and with the Society of Women Artists in London, as well as at the Royal Scottish Academy, the Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts and the Royal West of England Academy in Bristol. She returned to Australia in 1920 and held a teaching post in Sydney, undertaking some large architectural commissions. Benson died in the Mosman suburb of Sydney in 1949.