Sculpture

Hannah Frank produced her well known detailed, black and white drawings between 1927 and 1952.  She started to attend sculpture classes with Benno Schotz at the Glasgow School of Art in 1952.  Initially she intended that the anatomy she would learn would improve her drawing technique. However, she soon turned solely to sculpture, and after a 25 year drawing career, she produced several works of sculpture each year  right through to the 1990s.  The figures, mainly of women, retain the simplicity and elongated forms found in her drawings.

Hannah Frank exhibited her sculptures at the Royal Glasgow Institute, Royal Scottish Academy and Royal Academy in her fifty year sculpting career.  She worked with several bronze casters, but soon settled on the Art Bronze Foundry in London, where the founder’s son, Michael Gaskin, also cast bronzes for Henry Moore, Elizabeth Frink, Jacob Epstein & Barbara Hepworth among other great artists. She would send plaster or clay models down to London to be cast in bronze, using the centuries old Lost Wax process whereby a rubber mould is first made from the plaster cast.

Today Hannah Frank’s family works with Iomhar and Ruaraig Maciver at fine art bronzecasting foundry Beltane, in Peebles. See the ‘sculpture’ page in the shop section for information about which sculptures are available for recast, prices, and the recasting process.