Gillian White

Gillian White was born in Orpington, Kent, in 1939 and studied at St. Martin's School of Art, London (1956-60) and the Central School of Arts and Crafts, London (1956-60). Her teachers included Anthony Caro, Elisabeth Frink and William Turnbull. In 1960 she attended a summer academy in Salzburg with Oskar Kokoshka, before studying at the École National des Beaux Arts, Paris, with Ossip Zadkine and Rene Collamarini. In Paris she worked in the studio of Françiose Stähli, where she met the Swiss sculptor Albert Siegenthaler, who she married in 1962.

White developed her career as a ...