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.
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 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 (1938-1984), [3] [4] 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]
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