Gillian Wise (artist)

Gillian Wise (born 1936) is an English artist devoted to the application of concepts of rationality and aesthetic order to abstract paintings and reliefs.

Wise was born in London, and studied art at the Wimbledon and Central schools of art. In the 1950s she became the youngest member of the Constructionist group, centred on Victor Pasmore and included Adrian Heath, John Ernest, Anthony Hill, Kenneth Martin, and Mary Martin. She exhibited in the 1957 Young Contemporaries exhibition at the Royal British Artists gallery and in the New Vision Centre's abstract show in 1958. In the 1960s her work became much more widely shown with exhibitions in London (at the Drian, Axiom, Institute of Contemporary Arts, and Victoria and Albert Museum galleries), in Chicago, and at the 1965 Tokyo Biennale and the 1969 Nuremberg Biennale. In 1968 she gained a UNESCO Fellowship award to study in Prague, followed in 1969 by a British Council scholarship to study Russian constructivism in Leningrad. In the same year she exhibited with a group of British artists in an exhibition of systems-based abstraction in Finland, followed in 1970 by her joining many of the same artists in the newly founded Systems Group. Her fellow artists in that group included Jeffrey Steele, Peter Lowe, Malcolm Hughes, Jean Spencer, Michael Kidner, John Ernest, and David Saunders. She exhibited with the group in Matrix at the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol in 1970, and then in 1972 at the Whitechapel Gallery in the Arts Council's Systems exhibition. The Arts Council also commissioned her to curate the Constructivist section of the 1978 Hayward Annual, followed in the same year by her inclusion in the Arts Council's Constructive Context show.

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