[2] Esther Moore worked as a designer for a silversmith until she won a scholarship to the National Art Training School, NATS, where she was taught by the sculptor Édouard Lantéri.
[3] Among her contemporaries at NATS, which became the Royal College of Art in 1896, were a number of other female sculptors including Margaret Giles, Ruby Levick, Florence Steele, Lilian Simpson and Lucy Gwendolen Williams.
[3] After further training in Paris, Moore established a studio in Chiswick and began exhibiting at the Royal Academy, RA, in London.
[3] For the Della Robbia Pottery in Birkenhead, Moore designed decorative sculptures and household items including lamps and light fittings.
[3][4] During her career Moore also designed silver and bronze panels, memorials and decorative jewellery, and she exhibited with the Society of Women Artists, with the Royal Scottish Academy, at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and at the Paris Salon.