Gerda Sutton
Gerda Sutton | |
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| Born | 3 April 1923 Bedford, Bedfordshire, England |
| Died | 30 September 2005 18th arrondissement of Paris, France |
| Citizenship | France |
| Occupation(s) | atomic researcher and painter |
| Children | 2, including Jenny Arasse |
| Website | https://gerdasutton.com/ |
Gerda Mary Sutton (née Madgwick, 3 April 1923–30 September 2005) was a British-born atomic researcher and painter who became a naturalised citizen of France.[1]
Life
[edit]Sutton was born in Bedford, Bedfordshire in 1923.[2]
She studied and worked in the atomic research field in Montreal, Canada, then in Harwell, England. She left her atomic research career and moved to France to focus on painting.[3]
Sutton studied art at the Académie André Lhote alongside William Klein, Frédéric Menguy and Henri Cartier-Bresson. During the 1950s, she firstly painted in a realistic style, before producing cubist landscapes and expressionist characters.[4] After the terrorist attacks in Paris in the mid-eighties and the Gulf War,[3][4] her works became more radical and featured "violent forms of abstraction and collage."[1]
Sutton became involved with the group Reflets around 1965.[3] From 1977 she was a member of the Union des Femmes Peintres et Sculpteurs (Union of Women Painters and Sculptors).[4] Her works were exhibited in several French galleries including in Biarritz, Cannes and Paris.
She became a naturalised French citizen in 1993, and died in 2005 at the 18th arrondissement of Paris.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Balaram, Rakhee (8 March 2022). Counterpractice: Psychoanalysis, politics and the art of French feminism. Manchester University Press. p. 287. ISBN 978-1-5261-2518-7.
- ^ "Gerda Sutton". Mutual Art. Retrieved 15 January 2025.
- ^ a b c d "Gerda Sutton". Gallerease. Retrieved 15 January 2025.
- ^ a b c "Biography". Gerda SUTTON (1923-2005). Retrieved 15 January 2025.