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SUE KAFKA-ELLIS CURRICULUM VITAE APRIL 2008

     
   

1941 born in Salisbury S.Rhodesia (Harare, Zimbabwe\)
Life on a farm boarding schools in Salisbury and Cape Town
1960-1962 Student at UCT BA Art (In English and Fine Art
1963 marriage and move to Cambridge Work with various Cambridge artists
1964/5 Advanced Diploma at Cambridge Institute of Education
1965/66 work in Texas at an institute for emotionally disturbed children.
1966/67 work as assistant in Zoe Ellison’s pottery Cottenham
1967/69 500 year old cottage renovated Birth of Margaret and Andrew,exhibitions.
1967/71 work as Painting teacher at Comberton and Impington Village Colleges
1972 move to Hamburg then to Munich.Work as librarian. Learning German.
1973/75 work in a German state school as English and Art teacher
1975/1982 English teacher at the Rudolf Steiner School Munich
1975/76 Steiner Teaching Qualification
1979 and 1981 birth of Benjamin and. Emily..Renovation of Munich house.
1984 return to the Steiner school as part of a team to start Munich’s 3rd Steiner school.
1984-1998 work as English and Art teacher at the Groebenzell Steiner School
1998/99 work as head of Art department Rudolf Steiner school Kings Langley (Herts)
2000/2001 class teacher Cambridge Steiner school. Renovation of Cottenham house.
2001 /2005 retirement from teaching.Work as artist .
During all the years as teacher,exhibitions and work with groups of all ages in painting, sculpture and graphic techniques.
   

EXHIBITIONS July 05 registered sculptor with RoyalSociety of british Sculptors

    
Cape Town 1962
Cambridge 1963
Groebenzell 1994
Ely Cathedral 05/06
Unterfoehring 1995
Munich 1995
Groebenzell 1995
Unterfoehring 1996
Munich 1997
Unterfoehring 1997
Cambridge 1997
Beaconsfield 1997
Unterfoehring 1997
Groebenzell 1998
Groebenzell 1999
Kings Langley 1999
Herts Open Studios 1999
Cambridge Open Studios 2000
 Haddenham Gallery 2000
Cambridge Open Studios 2001-2005
Groebenzell 2003
Duxford Art Fair 2003/4
Art and Craft Fair Henley 2004
Sussex Open Studios 2005
Wimbledon Sculpture Garden 2004 /5

October 05 Africa Amour Fulbourn
November 05 Autumn Exhibition Cottenham
November 05 Cambridge Open Studios Winter Exhibition
Cambridge Open Studios 06
Great Art Christmas fair London 06
Falmouth Art Gallery
Gallery August Kent
Centre Geoges Brassens Angers Jan 07
Ely Cathedral 07

COMMISSIONS:

1964 Cambridge University Press mural
1999 portrait Kirsi Talvela
Sale of portrait bust Prof J Mirrlees to Scottish National Portrait |Gallery
2000 Portrait bust Prof Frank Hahn
2001 Portrait bust Prof Nigel Weiss
2002 Portrait Children and Lamb (for Kirsi Talvela)
Portrait Anina( for Kathinka Heim)
Portrait Swinging( for Hillary Mullen)
2004 Portrait bust Prof Francis Wilson
Portrait bust Sharon Waller
Many commissions to draw and paint at weddings, concerts, social gatherings.
The above sculptures are all in bronze.

Comissions are welcome, don't hesitate to contact the Artist.
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