Glenys latham (1946-2026)
Glenys Latham was born Glenys Eatock in Atherton, Lancashire in 1946.
Glenys began her art education at the age of thirteen at Bolton Secondary Art School and continued her studies at Bolton, Wolverhampton and Manchester Colleges of Art. She had the benefit of a very broad artistic education in her early studies and eventually undertook specialist studies at degree level in Sculpture with Life Drawing. A strong desire to give something back, and assist others to discover the quality of life that involvement in art has to offer, let to a career as a Secondary School teacher and then an Art School Lecturer along side which she has maintained her own artistic practice, beginning to exhibit sculpture and life drawing on a very regular basis some twenty years ago. In 1977 she decided the time had come to leave teaching and devote her time to increasing her portfolio.
An historic appointment was made in 1990, where Glenys Latham became the first woman to be elected President of the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, a post she held until 1993. A Bolton-based sculptor and lecturer at Leigh College of Art, she was establishing a growing reputation for her work in stone and bronze.
In 2001 St George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle held an exhibition celebrating her art, which ran for the full month of May that year.
Until 17th April 2026, Glenys Latham’s work is on show at The Turnpike Gallery, Leigh, as part of the Drumcroon Collection Part II.
Her works can be seen in our sale from Lot 37 to Lot 52.
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