Theresa GILDER
The sculptor was born in Manchester and studied there, at the School of Art, before becoming a textile designer. Moving to Cornwall, she was greatly interested in the work of Barbara HEPWORTH, and became a pupil at the Penzance School of Art where she worked under Edward Bouverie HOYTON, Barbara TRIBE and John TUNNARD.
Her specialty became working in marble and soapstone, and her figures are often either newborn infants, animal and human, and also intertwining couples.
Her son is the sculptor Lawrence MURLEY.
media
Sculptor, teacher, designer
works and access
Access to works: Hypatia Collection of Women's Art
Child Development Centre, Plymouth
Probus Sculpture Gardens
exhibitions
Jamieson Library of Women's History (Solo)
1986: RCM & RIC Three Spires Festival Exhibition of Paintings, Sculpture and Pottery, Truro (Opening of the RCM or County Art Gallery, by the Royal Institution of Cornwall)
NAG Newlyn in Pont Aven 1977; Solo Exhibition 1986
1992: RWE Bristol, Artists from Cornwall (selected)
2017: I Am Woman, Summerhouse Gallery, Marazion (8-21 July)
memberships
Hypatia Trust (Council)
NSA (Chairman 1980-81); NAG (Management Committee)
Penzance School of Art (Lecturer, sculpture)
references
Buckman (2006) Dictionary of Artists in Britain since 1945
Hardie (1995) 100 Years in Newlyn: Diary of a Gallery (photo likeness)
Hoyle, H (Jan 2013 Women Artists in Cornwall www.cornishmuse.blogspot.com) Barbara Tribe - A Sculptor's Life
RWE (1992) Artists from Cornwall, Bristol
Whybrow (1986) Forms and Faces: Sculptors in SW Cornwall;