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home and garden, and commissioned work.

Exhibited sculpture

Between 1926 – 37 she exhibited 11 works: 10 at the South African Academy’s annual art

exhibition in Johannesburg held at the end of every April – early May, and one at Cape
Town’s National Gallery; three of these were also exhibited internationally, while another

piece was lost in transit to an international exhibition.

 1926: Spirits of the Wind (bronze) – exhibited 1928 Young Artists’ Exhibition
London, and 1929 Royal Academy London, & Liverpool Autumn Exhibition
 1928: Willoughby Cleghorn (bronze)
 : Wave of the Rock (plaster)
 1929: Krishnamurti portrait (plaster)
 : John Bevil Rudd portrait (plaster)
 1930: The Dweller on the Threshold (marble) – lost on way to Liverpool Exhibition
 1931: Crest of the Wave (bronze) – exhibited Royal Academy London
 1932: Wall bird bath (cement)
 : Mask of Sir John Langerman (plaster)
 1933: Thunderbolt (bronze) – exhibited Liverpool Autumn Exhibition
 1935: Swimming Trophy (bronze)
 1936: Moonflower (plaster)
 1937: Design for porcelain – exhibited National Gallery Cape Town

Her first exhibited work, The Spirits of the Wind, fused visible and invisible nature and
human form in two swooping figures. Her inspiration probably came directly from the

turbulent conditions so evident around the Peninsula and locally close to her home. The
concept clarified itself over time, and was worked up in drawings of detail and of the whole

composition before being commenced in plaster of Paris. The finished piece was cast in
bronze in Italy and was exhibited in May 1926. She was at this time 22 years old and so it

would have been completed while she was still 21. It went on to exhibitions in England.

(Figs. 4.3 - 4.5).

It was described in the French journal Les Artistes d’Aujord‘ hui (Vol 1, 15 January, 1930).