Her numerous public commissions include Wild Boar for Harlow New Town, Blind Beggar and Dog for Bethnal Green, a lectern for Coventry Cathedral, Shepherd for Paternoster Square beside St. Paul's Cathedral and a Walking Madonna for Salisbury Cathedral. In 1982, she was for her services to art created DBE. A 1985 retrospective was given to her at the RA of which she was an elected member. As an exhibitor she showed at all major UK venues including the RSA, SSWA, WIAC, RGI, Grosvenor Gallery, Compass Gallery, Glasgow, Marjorie Parr Gallery and at the New Grafton Gallery, Barnes and at venues around the world. Her work is represented in the Tate Gallery, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Jerwood Sculpture Park, Lancaster University Art Gallery, Liverpool University Art Collection, New Hall College, Cambridge, University of Warwick Art Collection, Yorkshire Sculpture Park and in public collections world-wide. Many of her drawings from the 1960's appeared as prints executed by the Curwen Press. Elisabeth Frink was diagnosed with cancer in her early sixties. Despite this, she was working on a colossal statue, 'Risen Christ', for Liverpool Cathedral. This sculpture would prove to be her last as, just one week after its installation she died aged 62. Frink was the mother of the painter Lin Jammet and her estate is handled by and exhibited at Beaux Arts Bath and Beaux Arts London. Her estate at her death was valued at £4.6 million the equivalent in 2014 of £8.4 million.