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She worked in a variety of media and is recognized as an accomplished sculptor, writer, actor, singer and script writer. Throughout her career she traveled extensively working in
England, USA, Australia, India, Poland and Russia. Brilliant sculpted some of the greatest figures of her time including
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Fredda
Brilliant received no formal artistic training and was primarily self-taught, her early work began as a child sculpting models of children in the courtyard outside her house. At first she gave them away but was later encouraged to sell them. Her early successes are quoted in an article in
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where he lectured and made government films and she sculpted some of the most significant figures of the age including
Jawaharlal Nehru, V.K Krishna Menon and Indira Gandhi. In 1966 the couple returned to the USA where he was offered a professorship in
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She was keen to depict women in her work, once quoted as saying "I ask you: How many replicas of women are there about? Boadicea, the nurse Cavell. It is ridiculous, it is unfair." "It is important that women, too, are remembered. For all they do."
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in 1924. The
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magazine from 1978: 'We made enough money to buy two ice creams. One we shared, the other we gave away. So, at four years old, I learned how to be a creator, and how important it is to be a manager."
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which was released the following year. As war broke out Fredda began touring with a theatrical company and most notably appeared in the production of
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are in the private possession of her niece. The maquette for the statue of Gandhi was shown on the BBC programme
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