Freda Skinner
Freda Skinner was a British sculptor and woodcarver who was head of sculpture at Wimbledon School of Art from 1945 to 1971.
Skinner was born in Limpsfield, Surrey and studied under Henry Moore and Alan Durst at The Royal College of Art. She then went on to teach toy making and sculpture at Kingston School of Art.
She was a Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors and a member of the Society of Portrait Sculptors.
Her 1972 sculpture Virgin and Child is in the Lady Chapel of St Elphege's Church, Wallington, south London. She also carved the foundation stone for the Barbican Art Centre in central London, in 1972. She exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition six times.
In 1993 there was a retrospective exhibition of her work at the Bruton Street Gallery in central London. Two of her jigsaw works for Abbatt Toys are held in the V&A.
She died in West Amesbury, Wiltshire on 19 July 1993.
| Year | Title | Type |
| 1938 | Horse | Bronze statue |
| 1944 | A Berthel, Esq. | Head, terra-cotta |
| 1951 | Jana | Bust, terra-cotta |
| 1952 | Marianna | Head, Bronze |
| 1960 | Mrs Hoffman | Head, ciment fondu |
| 1963 | Child with an apple | Half-figure, concrete |
| 1967 | Horse | Bronze |
| 1989 | Harlequin | Bronze |
Selected works
