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White's Lichtung (1991) on the Kulturweg Baden-Wettingen-Neuenhof, photographed in 2011. Gillian Louise White (born 20 June 1939, in Orpington) is a British-born sculptor who currently resides and works in Leibstadt, Switzerland. [1] [2] She is renowned for her large-scale public works and art commissions for buildings. In 1969, shortly before ...
Gillian White may refer to: Gillian White (actress) (born 1975), American actress; Gillian White (lawyer) (1936-2016), English professor of international law; Gillian White (sculptor) (born 1939), English sculptor based in Switzerland; Gillian White (writer) (1945-2020), English novelist and journalist
When art captures the essential nature of something, the work will be deemed 'beautiful'." [12] Upon her return from Africa, Lowndes' "impatience with clay" and the so-called "craftsmanly side of her art" is apparent through her combination of "mainstream" sculpture materials "…that put the concept before the material."
Gillian Mary Wise (16 February 1936 – 11 April 2020) was a British artist devoted to the application of concepts of rationality and aesthetic order to abstract paintings and reliefs. [1] Between 1972 and 1990 she was known as Gillian Wise Ciobotaru. [2]
In 2012, a major retrospective of her work was held at Whitechapel Gallery, London (March–June 2012), which surveyed her career and premiered new films and sculptures. [33] The exhibition was organised with Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf and supported by Maja Hoffmann, Vicky Hughes and John Smith, and Dr Naomi Milgrom AO. [33]
The term objet d'art is reserved to describe works of art that are not paintings, prints, drawings or large or medium-sized sculptures, or architecture (e.g. household goods, figurines, etc., some purely aesthetic, some also practical). The term oeuvre is used to describe the complete body of work completed by an artist throughout a career. [2]
Mary Lillian White later Mary Dening (22 January 1930 – 20 May 2020) was an English textile designer known for several iconic textile prints of the 1950s. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Her designs were very popular and extensively copied in many 1950s homes, as well as in cabins aboard the RMS Queen Mary and at Heathrow Airport . [ 3 ]
Gillian Ayres was born to Florence and Stephen Ayres on 3 February 1930 in Barnes, London, the youngest of three sisters. [1] [2] [3] She started school when she was six.Her parents, a prosperous couple who owned a hatmaking factory, [3] sent her to Ibstock, a progressive school in Roehampton run on Fröbel principles.