Audrey Cruddas

Audrey Cruddas (1912-1979) bụ onye Bekee na-emepụta ejiji na ihe nkiri, onye na-ese ihe na onye na-akpụ ite. 

 Akụkọ ndụ 
A mụrụ na Johannesburg, South Africa, Cruddas so ndị mụrụ ya kwaga England mgbe ọ bụ nwa ọhụrụ.  Mgbe ọ gụsịrị akwụkwọ, ọ gụrụ nka na St John's Wood School of Art, Royal Academy Schools, na Bram Shaw School of Drawing and Painting.  N'oge Agha Ụwa nke Abụọ, ọ rụrụ ọrụ dị ka 'Land Girl' na Women's Land Army.  Na njedebe nke esemokwu ahụ, ọ malitere ịmepụta ejiji maka ụlọ ihe nkiri ahụ ma onye na-agba egwú na onye na-eme ihe nkiri bụ Sir Robert Helpmann hụrụ ngwa ngwa talent.  N'oge na-adịghị anya Cruddas ghọrọ otu n'ime ndị na-emepụta ihe nkiri ọgbara ọhụrụ nke oge agha mgbe agha gasịrị.

Ọrụ mbụ Cruddas bụ imepụta ejiji maka The White Devil na Duchess Theatre, London (1947). Mmepụta a gosipụtara enyi ya na onye nduzi ya Robert Helpmann. Ihe ndị ọzọ dị ịrịba ama n'ọrụ mbụ bụ maka mmepụta Old Vic nke John Burrell na 1947 nke Taming of the Shrew na Verdi, Aida at Convent Garden (1948). Ihe ndị a ma ama mechara mepụta gụnyere ihe nkiri Old Vic nke Michael Benthall nke Julius Caesar (1955), Cymbeline (1957), na Hamlet (1958), na Peter Potter's Edinburgh Festival nke 'The Wallace' (1960).

N'afọ 1952, Cruddas gosipụtara mbipụta Folio Society nke William Shakespeare's, The Tragedy of Antony & Cleopatra (onye na-aga n'ihu nke mbipụta a bụ enyi ya, Laurence Olivier) ma bipụtaghachi akwụkwọ ahụ na 1963. Ọ bụ ezie na a maara nke ọma maka ọrụ ihe nkiri ya.  ọ bụ onye na-ese ihe n'ụzọ dị iche iche - eserese, eserese na ceramik.  N'otu afọ ahụ, ọ merikwara Donaldson Award maka mmezu pụtara ìhè maka atụmatụ ya maka Siza na Cleopatra.

Na mbido afọ 1950, Cruddas kwagara n'obodo Essex nke Great Bardfield. Na Bardfield, ọ sonyeere ndị ọrụ nka dị ike nke gụnyere: John Aldridge, Edward Bawden, George Chapman, Stanley Clifford-Smith, Joan Glass, Walter Hoyle, Sheila Robinson, Michael Rothenstein, Marianne Straub, na ndị ọzọ. N'oge a, o lekwasịrị anya na ihe osise mmiri.Fry Art Gallery (2012). The Artists. In: Artists at the Fry: Art and design in the North West Essex Collection (pp. 45-46). Saffron Walden, Essex: The Fry Art Gallery.

Cruddas biri na Walton House, Great Bardfield (n'akụkụ nke Edward Bawden's Brick House) n'ime ọtụtụ afọ 1950 na ọ bụ onye dị mkpa na mpaghara nka nke bi na obodo Essex.  N'afọ 1960, ọ kwagara Bank House, Botesdale, Suffolk.  N'oge ọrụ ngosi ya, e gosiri ihe osise ya na Islington Gallery na Augustin Gallery, Holborn.

Ọrụ Cruddas dị na nchịkọta nke Victoria na Albert Museum,  British Museum na Fry Art Gallery na Saffron Walden. Fry Art Gallery (2012). The Artists. In: Artists at the Fry: Art and design in the North West Essex Collection (pp. 45-46). Saffron Walden, Essex: The Fry Art Gallery.

 Edensibia 

 Akwụkwọ 

 David Buckman, The Dictionary of Artists in Britain Since 1945, Art Dictionaries Ltd, Bristol, 1998.
 Martin Salisbury (ed), Artists at the Fry, Ruskin Press, Cambridge, 2003.
 Frances Spalding, 'The Women of Bardfield' (ihe ngosi), Fry Art Gallery, Saffron Walden, 2010.