ETC ART/WORK: Eleanor Crook (Patreon)

Here is our final ETC interview in the 6-part ART/WORK SERIES, aired on the 30th March 2021. In this interview I talk to sculptor and anatomist Eleanor Crook about her background as a classics student-turned art student and the themes & processes behind her sculpture; this video is the uncensored recording, showing images of Eleanor's dissection room drawings that cannot be shown on the public version hosted on YouTube. 

About Eleanor Crook

Eleanor Crook studied classics and philosophy before training in sculpture at Central St. Martins and the Royal Academy Schools where she specialised in wax modelling and lost wax bronze casting, studying anatomy and forensic facial reconstruction to imbue her figures with a more convincing sense of life. Her notable sculptures include a bronze and mixed media sculpture of Santa Medicina commissioned by the Wellcome Galleries of Medicine at London's Science Museum, a portrait of Virginia Wolff for King's College, London and ‘And The Band Played On’ – a group sculpture demonstrating historical examples of the pioneering reconstructive surgery.

• You can see more of Eleanor’s work on her website HERE.
• You can follow Eleanor on Instagram HERE 
• Watch a Wellcome Collection video showing a demonstration of the techniques employed when making a wax model HERE.

Links

During the video Eleanor talks about the following learning resources:

• Acland's Video Atlas of Human Anatomy (video resource)
• Gill Hedley - Functional Fascia (website)
• British Wax (wax suppliers - Eleanor uses 1704 & 1718)

You can see all of the talks in the series on our YouTube channel HERE.