Sculptor, initially in bronze, then in ceramics, of figures; painter. She was born in London into an academic family and married Professor Geoffrey Blackman, who held the Sibthorpian chair in rural economy at Oxford. Having failed to obtain a place to study history at Oxford, Audrey Blackman went to the Kunstgewerbeschule, Graz, in Austria, and contemplated becoming a singer, but returned to her early love of art by studying at Goldsmiths’ College School of Art 1926–30, and Reading University, 1931–5. Although her first sculptures were in bronze, she was persuaded by a visit to the Ashmolean Museum to turn to ceramics, learning the techniques at the Oxford School of Art under Gladys Grimshaw. In 1978 she published Rolled Pottery Figures.