Gerda Sutton

{{Infobox person | image = Gerda Sutton, 1999.jpg | birth_date = 3 April 1923 | birth_place = Bedford, Bedfordshire, England | death_date = 30 September 2005 (aged 82) | death_place = 18th arrondissement of Paris, France | citizenship = France | occupation = atomic researcher and painter | children = 2, including Jenny Arasse | website = https://gerdasutton.com/ }}

'''Gerda Mary Sutton''' ({{Nee|Madgwick}}, 3 April 1923–30 September 2005) was a British atomic researcher and painter who became a naturalised citizen of France.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Balaram |first=Rakhee |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8tBhEAAAQBAJ&dq=gerda+sutton&pg=PA1862 |title=Counterpractice: Psychoanalysis, politics and the art of French feminism |date=2022-03-08 |publisher=Manchester University Press |isbn=978-1-5261-2518-7 |pages=287 |language=en}}</ref>

== Life == Sutton was born in Bedford, Bedfordshire in 1923.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gerda Sutton |url=https://www.mutualart.com/Artist/Gerda-Sutton/1B68ABC99BDF3391/Biography |access-date=2025-01-15 |website=Mutual Art |language=en}}</ref> thumb|Sutton in 1999 She studied and worked in the atomic research field in Montreal, Canada, then in Harwell, England. She left her atomic research career and moved to France to focus on painting.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Gerda Sutton |url=https://gallerease.com/en/artists/gerda-sutton__0bcc943ebfee |access-date=2025-01-15 |website=Gallerease |language=en}}</ref>

Sutton studied art at the Académie André Lhote alongside William Klein, Frédéric Menguy and Henri Cartier-Bresson. During the 1950s, she firstly painted in a realistic style, before producing cubist landscapes and expressionist characters.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |title=Biography |url=https://gerdasutton.com/biography/ |access-date=2025-01-15 |website=Gerda SUTTON (1923-2005) |language=en-US}}</ref> After the terrorist attacks in Paris in the mid-eighties and the Gulf War,<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2" /> her works became more radical and featured "violent forms of abstraction and collage."<ref name=":0" />

Sutton became involved with the group Reflets around 1965.<ref name=":1" /> From 1977 she was a member of the ''Union des Femmes Peintres et Sculpteurs'' (Union of Women Painters and Sculptors).<ref name=":2" /> Her works were exhibited in several French galleries including in Biarritz, Cannes and Paris.

She became a naturalised French citizen in 1993, and died in 2005 at the 18th arrondissement of Paris.<ref name=":1" />

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