Gillian White (sculptor)

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Gillian Louise White (born 20 June 1939, in Orpington) is a British-born sculptor who currently resides and works in Leibstadt, Switzerland.{{cite web |last1=Altorfer |first1=Sabine |date=21 February 2013 |title=Gillian White |url=https://kunstamsee.wordpress.com/artists/gillian-white/ |access-date=1 December 2020 |website=Kunst am See |language=en}}{{cite web |title=White, Gillian |url=https://www.sikart.ch/KuenstlerInnen.aspx?id=4001886 |access-date=1 December 2020 |website=www.sikart.ch |publisher=SIKART Lexikon zur Kunst in der Schweiz}} She is renowned for her large-scale public works and art commissions for buildings. In 1969, shortly before relocating to Switzerland, Gillian White won her first competition with her sculpture "Gewässerschutzplastik" made of polyester for a public artwork in Olten.{{Cite web |title=Gewässerschutzplastik {{!}} Kunstbulletin |url=https://www.kunstbulletin.ch/en/art/gewasserschutzplastik |access-date=2024-07-18 |website=www.kunstbulletin.ch}}

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.

Her works on public display include Echodrome, created with her husband Albert Siegenthaler (1938-1984),{{cite web |title=Gillian White / Biography |url=http://www.white.plastikerin.ch/en/biography_en.html |website=www.white.plastikerin.ch |access-date=1 December 2020}} is on display on the campus of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne;{{cite web |title=Gillian White and Albert Siegenthaler: Echodrome (1985) |url=https://www.epfl.ch/campus/art-culture/museum-exhibitions/artworks/gillian-white-albert-siegenthaler/ |website=www.epfl.ch |access-date=1 December 2020}} Lichtung ("Lighting") on the {{ill|Kulturweg Baden-Wettingen-Neuenhof|de|Kulturweg Limmat}}; the {{convert|7|m}} 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;See explanatory sign :File:Seebach - Schwarzwaldhochstraße (Mummelsee) - Kunstpfad - Wedded Words 2 01 ies.jpg a work in the sculpture garden of Vullierens Castle;{{cite web |title=Gillian White |url=https://chateauvullierens.ch/en/artist/gillian-white/ |website=Château de Vullierens |access-date=1 December 2020}}
{{cite web |title=Plan des sculptures |url=https://chateauvullierens.ch/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Plan_sculpture_2020_A4_BD.pdf |website=Château de Vullierens |access-date=1 December 2020}} an untitled work (1993) in Winterthur;{{cite web |title=Gillian Louise White - Edition Winterthur |url=https://editionwinterthur.ch/kunst/kuenstler/white.php |website=editionwinterthur.ch |access-date=1 December 2020}} and works at the Villa Berberich in Bad Säckingen.{{cite news |last1=Frey |first1=Roswitha |title=Werke von Gillian White in Bad Säckingen: Allem Schweren eine Leichtigkeit |url=https://www.badische-zeitung.de/werke-von-gillian-white-in-bad-saeckingen-allem-schweren-eine-leichtigkeit--84254429.html |access-date=1 December 2020 |work=Badische Zeitung |date=5 May 2014 |language=de}} In 2009 the {{ill|Kunstmuseum Olten|de}} held a retrospective exhibition of her work.

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

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Selected publications

{{cite book |last1=White |first1=Gillian |title=Tanz in Eisen : Werke aus 40 Jahren = Dance in steel : 40 years' work |year=2009 |publisher=Scheidegger & Spiess |isbn=978-3-85881-251-3 }}