Alfreda benge biography samples

Alfreda Benge (Alfie), is an Artist, Illustrator, Film Maker and Lyricist who lives with her husband, Robert Wyatt in Louth, Lincolnshire. Born in 1940 in Austria to a Polish mother, she came to England in 1947.

Destined for a creative life from a young age

Alfie studied painting at Camberwell Art School, then typography and graphics at the London School of Printing before winning a competitive place at the RCA to study film.

At the time she was completing her undergraduate studies the Royal Academy of Arts were looking for a someone to make a film celebrating the Royal Academy's Centenary. Alfie secured the role as part of her Post Graduate studies.

At the end of that project Alfie began working in film and had also met her future husband Robert Wyatt, former Drummer with Canterbury bands The Wilde Flowers and Soft Machine.

Wyatt was in the process of making his second album with the band Matching Mole and Alfie contributed some (uncredited) backing vocals to Little Red Record