Name:

Gillian Lowndes

Lived:

1936-2010

Qualifications:

Born in West Kirby, Cheshire in 1936, she spent much of her childhood in British India. She studied at the Central School of Arts and Crafts beginning in 1957 and spent a year at L'École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1960. In the early 1970s she travelled to Nigeria with her husband, Ian Auld, a trip that would prove to be influential in her subsequent work. From 1975 until the early 1990s, she taught part-time at Camberwell College of Arts and Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. Her work is represented in many collections in Britain and she has had major shows at the Crafts Council (1987) and Contemporary Applied Arts (1994) and major exhibitions such as The Raw and the Cooked (1993-1994). She lived for a time in Toppesfield, Essex, then following the death of her husband in 2000 she moved to Spitalfields in London.int Martins College of Art and Design.