Gillian White (sculptor)

Gillian Louise White (born 20 June 1939) is an English sculptor based in Switzerland.[1][2] She has specialised in large scale works for public spaces.

White's Lichtung (1991) on the Kulturweg Baden-Wettingen-Neuenhof, photographed in 2011

Biography

White was born in Orpington, Kent, and attended the Elmhurst Ballet School which was then in Camberley. She studied at Saint Martin's School of Art and the Central School of Art and Design in London, and École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.[3]

Her works on public display include Echodrome, created with her husband Albert Siegenthaler (died 1984),[3] is on display on the campus of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne;[4] Lichtung ("Lighting") on the Kulturweg Baden-Wettingen-Neuenhof; the 7 metres (23 ft) Wave White Wedded Words 2 (2002/2003), with a title inspired by James Joyce, on the Kunstpfad am Mummelsee in Seebach in the Black Forest, Germany;[5] a work in the sculpture garden of Vullierens Castle;[6] an untitled work (1993) in Winterthur;[7] and works at the Villa Berberich in Bad Säckingen.[8] In 2009 the Kunstmuseum Olten held a retrospective exhibition of her work.[3]

Since 1972 she has lived and worked in Leibstadt, Canton of Aargau, Switzerland.[3]

Wave White Wedded Words 2

Selected publications
  • White, Gillian. Tanz in Eisen : Werke aus 40 Jahren = Dance in steel : 40 years' work. Scheidegger & Spiess. ISBN 978-3-85881-251-3.

References
  1. Altorfer, Sabine (21 February 2013). "Gillian White". Kunst am See. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
  2. "White, Gillian". www.sikart.ch. SIKART Lexikon zur Kunst in der Schweiz. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
  3. "Gillian White / Biography". www.white.plastikerin.ch. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
  4. "Gillian White and Albert Siegenthaler: Echodrome (1985)". www.epfl.ch. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
  5. See explanatory sign File:Seebach - Schwarzwaldhochstraße (Mummelsee) - Kunstpfad - Wedded Words 2 01 ies.jpg
  6. "Gillian White". Château de Vullierens. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
    "Plan des sculptures" (PDF). Château de Vullierens. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
  7. "Gillian Louise White - Edition Winterthur". editionwinterthur.ch. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
  8. Frey, Roswitha (5 May 2014). "Werke von Gillian White in Bad Säckingen: Allem Schweren eine Leichtigkeit". Badische Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 1 December 2020.
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