GILLIAN
WHITE



BIOGRAPHY





Awards


1939

Born in Orpington, Kent, GB, 20th June


1949–1955

Elmhurst Ballet School, Camberley, Surrey


1956–1960

St Martin's School of Art, London (under among others Sir Anthony Caro and Elizabeth Frink)


1959

Central School of Arts and Crafts, London (under William Turnbull)


1960

Summer academy by Oskar Kokoschka in Salzburg


1960–63

Ecole Nat. Sup. des Beaux-Arts, Paris
(under Ossip Zadkine and René Collamarini)


1962–63

Assisted with large sculpture pieces in the studio of François Stahly, Paris



Met the sculptor Albert Siegenthaler


1962

Married Albert Siegenthaler in Paris


1963

Moved to London


1964

Birth of her son Guy


1966

Birth of her daughter Johanna


1966

Moved to Switzerland, shared studio in Stilli


since 1972

Lives and workes in Leibstadt


1982–1983

Assistant together with Albert Siegenthaler at the Teacher Training College, Zürich


1984

Death of Albert Siegenthaler


1993

6 month residal visit in the studio of the Aargauer Kuratorium in Prague


1999-2000


Sabbatical in London sponsored by the Cultural Foundation Landis & Gyr, Zug



2009


Retrospective at Kunstmuseum Olten



AWARDS AND GRANTS


2011

Bräunlich-Bieser Foundation, Waldshut-Tiengen


2008

Hans-Thoma-Award, Bernau/Schwarzwald


1999/2000

Sabbatical in London, Cultural Foundation Landis & Gyr, Zug


1994

Contribution for Skoda-Symposium in Pilsen (with Anna-Maria Bauer), Suisse Cultural Foundation Pro Helvetia


1993

6 month studio in Prague, during this time an exhibition in the British Council


1991

Logis and Studio for a seven-weeks stay in Rome, Istituto Svizzero di Roma


1985

Recognition Award, Aargauer Kuratorium


1974

First price in the international competition of the Berliner Festwochen, Working Group «Die Dult» (with Albert Siegenthaler and Willi Schoder)



Third price in the competition «Herzlandschaft» of the Foundation Bayer, Germany




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