Elisabeth Koster,
A.R.C.A. (Associate of the Royal College of Art, London),
A.R.B.S. (Associate of the Royal Society of British Sculptors)
Born 4/8/1926
Assistant to Barney Seale FRBS, FRSA, working for the Festival of Britain
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Elisabeth Koster,
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Born 4/8/1926 |
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| 1942- 45 | Kingston School of Art, Kingston-upon-Thames |
| 1945- 47 | Royal College of Art, London, Diplomas in Sculpture |
| 1947- 51 |
Assistant to Barney Seale FRBS, FRSA, working for the Festival of Britain |
| 1953 | Ottilie Helen Wallace Prize, Royal Scottish Academy |
| 1953- 57 | Qualified Teacher of art in Scotland |
| 1957- 75 | Principal teacher of Art |
| 1965- 67 | Member of the Working Party for VI th Year Studies in Art |
| 1968- 71 | Member of Working Party for Art in Secondary Schools |
| 1966- 75 | Member for O Level and VI th Year Studies in Art |
| 1967- 70 | Member of Art panel to the Scottish Examinations Board |
| 1973- 80 | Part-time lecturer in wood carving, Edinburgh College of Art |
| 1979- 83 | Lecturer in ceramic sculpture, Adult Education Classes |
| 1979- | A. Cameron Miller Award, Scottish Society of Women Artists |
| 1979 | Elected Assiociate of the Royal Society of Women Artists |
| 1982 | Vice President of the Scottish Society of Women Artists |
| 1986 | Worked with George Mancini restoring the orinal plaster cast of Eros by Alfred Gilbert |
| 1987 | Worked with George Mancini restoring plaster casts from the Duke of Clarence's tomb, St-George's Chapel, Windsor |
WORKS EXHIBITED
| Royal Scottish Academy SSWA | |
| 1979 | Henderson Gallery |
| 1979- 82 | Chessel Group, Edinburgh Festival Fringe |
| 1980 | R.B.S. Scottish Members Exhibition, Art Space Gallery, Aberdeen |
| 1983 | The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh |
| 1988 | R.B.S. Members Exhibition, New College, Oxford |
| 1989 | R.B.S. Members Exhibition, West of England Gallery, Bristol |
| 1990- 91 | Work Shop Gallery, Sutton Bonington |
| 1991- 92 | Leicester Gallery, Leicester |
| 1992- 93 | Ferrier Gallery, Staunton Harrold |
| 1996 | Penn Club, London, Inlaid Lino Panels |
| 1997 | Bartlemas Chapel, Oxford, Inlaid Lino Panels |
| 2002 | FIDEM, Paris, Apocalypse Medals |
COMMISSIONS
| 1961 | 7'x16' inlaid lino mural, Ellon Academy Primary School |
| 1964 | 8'x16' inlaid lino mural, Ellon Academy Secondary School |
| 1968 | Stations of the Cross, St. Kentigern's Edinburgh |
| 1976 | Main Tabernacle, St. Kentigern's Edinburgh |
| 1978 | Relief Statue of St. John Olgilvie, St.Kentigern's Edinburgh |
| 1982 | Carving presented to Pope John Paul II, by St. Joseph's Hospital Rosewell |
| 1985 | Bronze St. Anthony for Edinburgh Cathedral |
| 1985 | Leaping Salmon presented to the Secretary of State for Scotland by N.A.S.C.O. |
| 1986 | Reliquary to hold St.Andrew's relics, Edinburgh Cathedral |
| 1991 | Main Tabernacle for Edinburgh Cathedral |
| 1997 | Tabernacle for Maryvale, Surrey |
| 1997 | Four lino panels, Nottingham University |
| 2002 | Statue of St. Leopold Mandic, Franciscan Church |