Daisy Theresa Borne
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Daisy Theresa Borne (18 July 1906 –1998) was a British sculptor.{{cite book|author=James Mackay|publisher=Antique Collectors' Club|year=1977|title=The Dictionary of Western Sculptors in Bronze}}
Biography
Borne was born in London but travelled extensively as a child with her family and for a time lived in Moline, Illinois in the United States where her father owned a printing ink business.{{cite book|author=Alan Windsor|publisher=Ashgate|year=2003|title=British Sculptors of the Twentieth Century |isbn=1-85928-4566}} Her mother's occupation is not recorded. Borne returned to Britain and studied sculpture at the Regent Street Polytechnic and also developed her singing ability to the extent she was offered, but refused, professional roles.{{cite book|author=David Buckman|publisher=Art Dictionaries Ltd|year=2006|title=Artists in Britain Since 1945 Vol 1, A to L |isbn=0-953260-95-X}} In 1933, she met Joyce Bidder, (1906–1999), who taught her to carve and with whom she set up a studio in Wimbledon in south London that they maintained together for some fifty years. Borne was a member of the Women's Amateur Rowing Association after World War II.{{Cite journal|author=Lisa Taylor|date=25 June 2018|title=The Women's Amateur Rowing Association 1923–1963: a prosopographical approach|journal=Sport in History|volume=38|issue=3|pages=307–330|doi=10.1080/17460263.2018.1488153|issn=1746-0263}} She is also mentioned in an informal history of the 'Borne Regatta'.{{Cite web|url=http://www.borne-regatta.org/history.htm|title= History of Borne Regatta 1932-present |website=borne-regatta.org|access-date=10 February 2020}}
Borne worked in a wide variety of materials, including plastic, marble, stone and wood to produce statuettes, figurines, fountains and works in relief.{{cite book|author=Sara Gray|publisher=Dark River|year=2019|title= British Women Artists. A Biographical Dictionary of 1000 Women Artists in the British Decorative Arts |isbn=978-1-911121-63-3}} Between 1933 and 1971 she showed some 78 works at exhibitions of the Society of Women Artists and was elected an associate member of that body in 1949 and a full member in 1952.{{cite book|author=Grant M. Waters|publisher=Eastbourne Fine Art|year=1975|title=Dictionary of British Artists Working 1900–1950}} Borne was also, between 1932 and 1962 a regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy in London. She was an associate member of the Royal Society of British Sculptors and for a time served as vice-president of the Royal Society of Miniature Painters, Sculptors and Gravers. In 1987, the Fine Art Society hosted a two-women show of Borne and Bidder's work.
Borne exhibited her first piece in Palomina marble, Madonna of the Adoring Angels in 1939 at the Royal Academy. This was her first piece of a religious theme, which she would later specialise in.{{Cite book|author= Sacha Llewellyn|title=50-50, Fifty works by fifty British women artists 1900 - 1950', Catalogue for exhibition shown at the Mercer's Company, London, 3 December - 23 March 2019, and The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Leeds, 9 April 2019 - 27 July 2019|publisher=Empress Litho|isbn=9780993088483|pages=67|year=2019}}
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Category:20th-century British sculptors
Category:20th-century English women artists
Category:English women sculptors
Category:Sculptors from London