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Ophelia Gordon Bell

Joan Ophelia Gordon Bell (1915–1975) was an English sculptor, known for her several commissions for the United Kingdom's Atomic Energy Authority.

Works
kiln, made from a piece of anhydrite Her giant Portland stone figures, 'Thought' and 'Action', are outside the former Atomic Energy Authority offices in Risley, Lancashire. The plaster cast remains in Grasmere. William and Dorothy in 1800, depicts William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy. St Oswald's Church, Grasmere has her stone sculpture of the Madonna and child. The Breakthrough Cross (1966), on the roof of the Lady Chapel at the Church of Christ the Healer at Burrswood Hospital in Groombridge, is made from aluminium and scrap metal. Other works are displayed at the Heaton Cooper Studio in Grasmere, Formerly at Ambleside, William moved the gallery to Grasmere in 1938. It is now operated by John Cooper, another of Ophelia and William's sons. == Legacy ==
Legacy
The Lakes Artists Society, of which Bell was a member from 1940 until her death, grants an annual 'Ophelia Gordon Bell Award' for sculpture "to encourage and reward excellence and innovation". == References ==
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