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What’s New: May 2024
This month’s update, introduced by Jane Simpkiss, adds the lives of fourteen women artists active from the late eighteenth to the late twentieth century, including painters, botanical artists and illustrators, a pottery designer, a medallist, a printmaker, and a fashion designer. Read the introduction now
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Gillick [née Tutin], Mary Gaskell (1881–1965), sculptor and medallist
A student at Nottingham School of Art and the Royal College of Art in London, Mary Gillick exhibited portrait medals at the Royal Academy for over fifty years. In 1952 she won the competition to design the portrait for the first UK coinage of Queen Elizabeth II.
