Person    | Female  Born 8/6/1895  Died 29/12/1991

Dora Gordine

Categories: Sculpture

Countries: Latvia

Born Latvia. First visited London in 1926. The Picture Source website provides a biography. Married Richard Hare and built, with him, Dorich House which is where she died and is now a museum.

For more information on this sculptor we suggest the book ‘Working Against the Grain: Women Sculptors in Britain c.1885-1950’ by Pauline Rose.

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Dora Gordine

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Sun Yat-Sen

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Ralph Beyer

Ralph Beyer

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Eduardo Paolozzi

Eduardo Paolozzi

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Futurecity

Futurecity

From their website: "We add value to the built environment. We create alliances & build bridges. We put new places on the cultural map. We create distinct, memorable, marketable identity.

Group, Art, Commerce, Sculpture

1 memorial
Richard Michael Renshaw

Richard Michael Renshaw

Richard Michael Renshaw was born in May 1950 in Holderness, Yorkshire, the second of the three children of Jack Newlove Renshaw (1920-1987) and Helen Rhead Renshaw née Moser (1917-2005). His birth ...

Person, Sculpture, Wales

1 memorial
Jak Beula Dodd

Jak Beula Dodd

Born St Mary's Hospital Paddington, to parents who were both from Jamaica, John Bubeula Dodd is commonly known as Jak Beula. He is a British entrepreneur and cultural activist of Caribbean heritage...

Person, Community / Clubs, Race Issues, Sculpture

2 memorials

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Dalston City Partnership

Dalston City Partnership

Initially we could discover little about this body but Rocker Ages solved the puzzle - they were a private, limited by guarantee company, in the regeneration business. From Lifelong Learning: "DCP ...

Group, Property

1 memorial
Ivan Maisky & wife

Ivan Maisky & wife

That looks to us very much like the bust that Maisky and his wife unveiled at Holford Gardens, unfinished of course.

Group, Politics & Administration

2 memorials