Gillian Wise, artist
Gillian Wise - an English artist devoted to the application of concepts of rationality and aesthetic order to abstract paintings and reliefs – died on 11 April 2020 of COVID-19 while living in the Paris care home to which she had moved following the deterioration of her health in 2018.
Between 1972 and 1990 she was known as Gillian Wise Ciobotaru.
Wise was born at Ilford in London to Arthur, a timber merchant, and Elsie, nee Holden, a milliner. She studied art at the Wimbledon College of Art from 1954 to 1957 and then at the Central School of Arts and Crafts during 1959.
Before she graduated, Wise was already showing works with a group of Constructionist artists, exhibiting at the 1957 Young Contemporaries exhibition at the Royal British A...