Mitzi Cunliffe, sculptor, working with Portland stone

Mar. 27 Sculptor Mitzi Cunliffe soon takes off her Ear Muffs.: For over a year 52 year-old American born sculptor Mitzi Cunliffe has been working with a power hammer knocking away four tons of Portland stone. The completed works which will consist of four ft. Square Scottish motifs weighing one ton each are due to be erected in March outside the Scottish Life House, Poultry, London, the new building of the Scottish Life Assurance Company. Mitzi who works in the studio of her mews flat in Brighton finds working with a hammer a noisy business and wears ear muffs. When the job is finished she is looking forward to relaxing at home with her husband and children. She has devoted all her sculptoral life to sculpture and architecture. Her commissioned sculptures have been installed on large buildings throughout England and she has also executed design models for American firms. Her one-person sculptor exhibitions have been held in London, New York and museums in America while her sculptures have been included in 150 group exhibitions in the USA. She has designed textiles, tiles and pottery for mass production and jewellery for the First International Jewellery Exhibition. She also writes on architecture and design and lectures on American art, Mitzi Cunliffe was born in New York City and is a D.Se. and V.E. She married Marcus Cunliffe in 1949 and lived in Manchester until she moved in 1964 to Brighton where her husband is Professor at the University of Sussex. They have two daughters and a son. Mitzi is feeling very pleased with this commission for it is the only one up to now that has found such a prominent position. She says in years to come her grandchildren will be able to say: My grandmother did that. Mitzi Cunliffe working in her studio wearing gloves and ear muffs

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