Mary C. Audsley (1919-2008) was a British painter and sculptor.
Audsley was born at Eton in Berkshire. Audsley studied at the Westminster School of Art amongst 1934 and 1938, where she was taught by Eric Schilsky, Mark Gertler and Bernard Meninsky. Soon after she graduated, Audsley began exhibiting later than the London Group and at the Royal Academy.
Audsley had been well-liked for a teaching make known at Westminster but the School of Art closed at the start of World War II back she could accept up the post. During the War, Audsley enrolled in the Women’s Auxiliary Air Force but was invalided out in 1943 and spent seven months in hospital. Further periods of ill-health, and associates responsibilities, greatly limited her artistic career and it was and no-one else in the 1970s that she another time became artistically active on a regular basis.
Audsley worked in several media including carvings, ceramics, collage and printmaking. A solo exhibition of her piece of legislation was held at Sally Hunter Fine Art in 1990. Contributions by Audsley formed the bulk of a bureau show, Sculptors in Two Dimensions, organised by Sally Hunter in 2003.
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