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Agathe Sorel was born in 1935 in Budapest, Hungary. She trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest, the Camberwell College of Art in London and Atelier 17 in Paris. She was the recipient of Gulbenkian and Churchill fellowships, allowing her to travel and work in France, the USA and Mexico. She was also a founding Member of the Printmakers' Council and its Chairman from 1981-1983.
Agathe Sorel works in sculpture, printmaking and watercolour, and also produces illustrations for books. She has had more that 20 one-woman shows in the UK, Canada, Israel, the USA and Germany, and has recently had a major retrospective of her work at the Bradford Museum's Cartwright Hall.
Her work has explored parallel developments in the arts and sciences, dimensionality and the modern meaning and interpretation of perspective. She is a Member of the Royal Watercolour Society and the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers.
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