![]() ![]() He exhibited small lead figure groups in Cork Street, and hoped for more exposure there he took part in the LCC Holland Park Sculpture Exhibition in 1957 and was included in a British Council touring exhibition to Scandinavia and South America, where he won the Acquisition Prize at the Sao Paulo Biennale. Wright did what he could as an artist in the English provinces after the war to make London sit up and take notice. ![]() When not taking French and German lessons, Wright taught painting and sculpture at The Downs and, as a gesture to his friend and colleague, acted as witness at Auden's wedding in Malvern to Thomas Mann's daughter Erika. The painter Patrick George, then a pupil, recalled that on Sundays "we remembered we were a Quaker school and sat in silence on rush- covered chairs for what seemed a very long time". Auden taught English the art master, Maurice Feild, brought an exhibition of Dada to the school. His first posting, at The Downs, near Malvern, in 1934, set him in a school which was unique for its freedom of expression - W.H. ![]() He was brought up in Cardiff, of English Quaker parents, and although there were youthful stirrings of a desire to become a sculptor, he nevertheless took an orthodox route and read Modern Languages at New College, Oxford, and trained to become a teacher. ![]() Austin Wright found his language as a sculptor in the forms of plants, in the human figure and in the folds of the Yorkshire landscape. ![]()
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