June Furlong

June Furlong (3 June 1930 – 20 November 2020) was a model at the Liverpool College of Art and Design, Slade School of Fine Art and the Royal College of Art for 50 years. She also organised art exhibitions.

June Furlong
Born1930 (1930)
Liverpool, England
Died20 November 2020(2020-11-20) (aged 89–90)
Known forModeling

Personal life

Furlong was born in Liverpool on 3 June 1930. She was with her parents at their home in Faulkner Street during the Second World War when an incendiary bomb landed on in the house, with the fire fortunately extinguished by the parents.[1][2]

Furlond died on 20 November 2020, at the age of 90.[3]

Modelling career

Furlong started modelling in 1947 when she was 17 and continued until she was 65. Most of her career was at the Liverpool School of Art, but in the 1950s she was in London for 5 years, modelling at the Slade School of Fine Art, Goldsmith's College and the Royal College of Art. As a consequence she is the subject of artwork by artists such as Lucien Freud, Frank Auerbach, Stanley Reed, Mike Hatjoullis, Josh Kirby, George W. Jardine, John Lennon, and indeed almost all those who were art students in Liverpool between the 1960s and early 1990s.[4][5]

Exhibitions

She organised an exhibition of the work of Josh Kirby at the Albert Dock, Liverpool, in 1988[6] and was co-organiser of an exhibition of work by George W. Jardine in 2012 at the Liverpool Academy of Art.[7]

An exhibition of portraits of Furlong was held to celebrate her 90th birthday in June 2020 at the Williamson Art Gallery and Museum, Birkenhead.[4]

References
  1. Olusoga, David. "Meet June Furlong". A House Through Time. BBC. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
  2. Block, June (2000). June:A Life Study. APML, UK. p. 158. ISBN 978-0953446117.
  3. Kirwin, Ellen (21 November 2020). "Tributes paid to Liverpool legend and life model June FurlongTributes paid to Liverpool legend and life model June Furlong". Liverpool Echo.
  4. "June Furlong". Williamson Art Gallery and Museum. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  5. "Birthday toast to June Furlong, who posed nude for John Lennon". Liverpool Echo. 28 May 2010. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
  6. "Biographical details". liverpoolmuseums.org.uk. Liverpool Museums. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
  7. "George Jardine". The Liverpool Academy of Arts. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
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