Sculptor, printmaker, ceramist, draughtsman and teacher. Born and lived in Ibadan, Nigeria, and Ghana, 1951–3. Attended Accademia di Belle Arti, Florence, 1972–3, from 1970–4 studying at University College of Wales, Aberystwyth; graduated with joint honours in fine art and Italian. After working as a graphic artist in Canada and Europe, 1975–82, Kowal Post worked as an artist on Merseyside; in 1986 she was a visiting lecturer at Bristol Polytechnic. She was also a visiting lecturer at Wrexham College of Art, Wirral College of Further Education, Liverpool Institute, City Art College in Liverpool and Crewe and Alsager College of Art. Other features of her career were Artists in Industry, Lever Brothers Ltd, Merseyside; Woodcut Print Workshop at Cornerhouse, Manchester; and Liverpool Disablement Resources Unit tutor, all in 1986.
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She had residencies at Bury St Edmunds Cathedral, 1988, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 1989, and Minories Art Gallery, Colchester, 1991. Later sculpture commissions included Ashworth Hospital, Merseyside, and Glan Clwyd NHS Trust, Cancer Treatment Centre, both 2000. The artist showed at SGA; Mall Galleries; Hanover Gallery, in Liverpool; Contemporary British Woodcuts, at Worcester City Art Gallery; and John Moores Exhibition, Liverpool, in 1987, where she was a prizewinner. Had a solo show at Hanover Gallery, 1985, another at Williamson Art Gallery and Museum, Birkenhead, in 1987. Kowal Post then had a frequent run of one-man exhibitions, later ones including Millais Gallery, Southampton Institute, and Otter Gallery, University College, Chichester, both 2001, and Stadtmuseum Beckum, Beckum, and Kulturforum Rheine, Rheine, both Germany in 2002. That gallery holds her work, as do many other public and corporate collections in Britain and abroad, including Lever Brothers Ltd, Walker and Manchester Art Galleries, and University of Liverpool. She lived in Milton Street, Polegate, Sussex.
Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)