Cecile Elstein MA, MAFA. Sculptor , Printmaker and Environmental Artist
1938 - Cecile Hoberman born in Cape Town, South Africa
1959 - ongoing Commissions for portrait bronzes
1961 - Immigrated to the UK to avoid apartheid regime
1965-69 - Studied ceramics with Catherine Yarrow in London
1970-77 - Lived in Southampton
1975-77 - Sculpture and Printmaking, West Surrey College of Art
1977 - ongoing - lives in Manchester
1979 - 80 - ‘The Sisyphus Suite’, a series of 8 screen prints based on the Myth of Sisyphus
1983-84 - Exhibitions include Accepted Royal Academy in 1985, Society of Portrait Sculptors, International Print
Biennale Cadeque, Spain
1981 - ‘Everlasting Light’ sculpture designed and made for Menorah Synagogue
1984 - ‘‘Morning Meeting’, ‘Noon Meeting’ and ‘Evening Meeting’ screenprints
1986 - ‘Noon Meeting’ Sericol Colour Prize, Bradford Print Biennale
1991 - Exhibition at Whitworth Art Gallery ‘A Printmakers Partnership - Cecile Elstein and Kip Gresham’
1996 - ‘Empathy in Design Education’, MA MMU - dissertation
1996 - ‘Together with Tangents’, Wimpole Hall Gardens, Cambridgeshire, site-specific installation, additional video
2005 - Commission for Bronze portrait ‘Michael Kennedy CBE 1926 - 2014 - Writer and Music Critic Fellow and
Companion of the RNCM’, can be viewed in the Upper Concourse of the RNCM, Manchester
2010 - Sundial for Marie Louise Gardens Manchester in collaboration with Tam Giles with cooperation of Leisure
services and children of Moor Allerton School Didsbury
2008 - ‘Yellow Violet’ - screen prints
2001 - 2019 - ’Paul’s People’ - 9 portrait drawings, pastel and charcoal
2001 - 2020 Initiated and co-facilitator of Didsbury Drawing with Margaret Crowther. Artists’ group for life drawing,
regular weekly sessions
2011 - ‘Place of Light and Air’ and ‘Of Being’ screen prints
2018 - ongoing, Elstein is now working with the CE Studio Team, Dreamstudio.io and associates, to collate artworks for retrospective,
oeuvre, catalogue raisonné, monograph
2023 - ongoing - current portrait drawing project