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Gillian Louise White was born in Orpington, Kent in 1939. After initially training as a ballet dancer at the Elmhurst School of Ballet in Camberley from 1949 to 1955, she studied at St Martin’s School of Art in London from 1956 to 1959, where she was taught by Anthony Caro and Elisabeth Frink, among others, followed by studies with William Turnbull at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in 1959. Afterwards she attended the Summer Academy under Oskar Kokoschka in Salzburg. After Salzburg she studied for three years at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts [School of Fine Arts] in Paris. In 1962, she married Aargau sculptor Albert Siegenthaler (1938–1984) and moved to Switzerland with her family in 1966 after a three-year stay in London. She regularly exhibits her work in Switzerland and has received numerous prizes and scholarships, such as the Anerkennungspreis [recognition prize] in 1985 and the studio scholarship in Prague in 1993, both from the Aargauer Kuratorium, and a Landis & Gyr Foundation working semester in London in 1999. White has been living and working in Leibstadt since 1972.
Gillian Louise White was born in Orpington, Kent in 1939. After initially training as a ballet dancer at the Elmhurst School of Ballet in Camberley from 1949 to 1955, she studied at St Martin’s School of Art in London from 1956 to 1959, where she was taught by Anthony Caro and Elisabeth Frink, among others, followed by studies with William Turnbull at the Central School of Arts and Crafts in 1959. Afterwards she attended the Summer Academy under Oskar Kokoschka in Salzburg. After Salzburg she studied for three years at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts [School of Fine Arts] in Paris. In 1962, she married Aargau sculptor Albert Siegenthaler (1938–1984) and moved to Switzerland with her family in 1966 after a three-year stay in London. She regularly exhibits her work in Switzerland and has received numerous prizes and scholarships, such as the Anerkennungspreis [recognition prize] in 1985 and the studio scholarship in Prague in 1993, both from the Aargauer Kuratorium, and a Landis & Gyr Foundation working semester in London in 1999. White has been living and working in Leibstadt since 1972.