{{Short description|Canadian-British illustrator}}
'''Judith Clute''' (born 1942) is a Canadian painter,<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Grant|first1=John|title=The Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Science Fiction Art Techniques|last2=Tiner|first2=Ron|publisher=Titon Books|year=1996|isbn=1-85286-702-7|page=163}}</ref> graphic designer,<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Montegomerie|first=Lee|title=War and/or Peace|magazine=Interzone|number=11|page=9}}</ref> print-maker,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Judith Clute|url=https://www.thames-sidestudios.co.uk/print-studios/shop/judith-clute|access-date=October 29, 2021|website=Thames-Side Print Studio Shop}}</ref> and illustrator<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Association of Illustrators: 10th Annual|publisher=Rotovision|year=1985|isbn=2-88046-053-0|page=146}}</ref> who has created cover art and illustrations for a number of well-known science fiction authors and magazines. Clute has British citizenship and works in London. She is also a tour guide with the Original London Walks.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Old Camden Town|url=https://www.walks.com/our-walks/old-camden-town-alternative-london/|access-date=October 29, 2021|website=London Walks}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Mallen |first=Sean |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J2ZBDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Judith+Clute%22+-festschrift&pg=PT109 |title=Falling for London: A Cautionary Tale |date=2018-10-13 |publisher=Dundurn |isbn=978-1-4597-4196-6 |page=109 |language=en}}</ref>
== Life and career == '''Judith Rosanne Wood James''' was born in Edmonton, Alberta in 1942, but grew up in Toronto and matriculated from Bishop Strachan School in 1961. In the same year she was invited to be a painting apprentice for two years in Vancouver with Françoise Andre and Charles Stegeman.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|last=Jude|first=Dick|title=Fantasy Art Masters: the best in fantasy and sf art worldwide|publisher=Collins|year=2002|isbn=0-00-713747-8|location=London|page=38}}</ref> She married John Clute in 1964 and they moved to Camden Town in London in 1969.<ref name=":0"/><ref>{{Cite book |last=Langford |first=David |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2RlrUk8-PFkC&dq=%22Judith+Clute%22&pg=PA21 |title=Starcombing |date=2009-05-01 |publisher=Wildside Press LLC |isbn=978-0-8095-7348-6 |page=21 |language=en}}</ref> From the beginning of her time in London, Clute became involved with the New Arts Lab. In June 1970, she participated in an exhibition with Pamela Zoline entitled "Judith Clute: Diagrams/Similes and Pamela Zoline: Things in the World" at the London New Arts Lab. In the exhibition's press release Clute's paintings were described as having "mount[ed] campaigns against easy reading".<ref>{{Cite book|last=Curtis|first=David|title=London's New Arts Labs and the 60's Avant Garde|publisher=John Libby Publishing|year=2020|isbn=978-0-86196-748-3|pages=117, 118}}</ref>
In 1975, for ''New Worlds'', Clute did an India ink illustration for "Daddy's Girl" by Joanna Russ.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=|first=|editor-last=Bailey|editor-first=Hilary|title=Daddy's Girl|journal=New Worlds|date=1975|volume=9|isbn=0-552-10022-6}}</ref> It marked the beginning of the style she is known for: "constructing things from disparate elements".<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Paper Tiger Fantasy Art Gallery|publisher=Paper Tiger|year=2002|isbn=1-85585-957-2|editor-last=Barnet|editor-first=Paul|page=32}}</ref> For the next five decades, Clute continued to produce works in this style, participating in 37 painting exhibitions to date<ref name=":1" /> and creating illustrations for a number of well-known science fiction authors and magazines. ''Interzone'' #42 (December 1990), an all-female issue, used illustrations by Clute throughout.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ashley |first=Mike |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L5SzDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Judith+Clute%22&pg=PA133 |title=Science-Fiction Rebels: the Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines from 1981 To 1990: The History of the Science-Fiction Magazine |date=2020-02-29 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-1-78962-171-6 |pages=132–133 |language=en}}</ref>
In ''Interzone'' #188, her artwork was displayed on the cover, and her life and work was discussed in an article entitled "Still Turning Motif's Upside Down" by Paul Brazier.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Brazier|first=Paul|date=2003|title=Still Turning Motifs Upside Down|magazine=Interzone|number=188|pages=34–36|issn=0264-3596}}</ref> In 2003, Clute acted in the film "A Short Film about John Bolton" directed by Neil Gaiman.<ref>{{Cite web|title=A Short Film About John Bolton|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0420181/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm|access-date=November 4, 2021|website=IMDb}}</ref> In 2018, Clute participated in the pop-up show ''An Arts Lab Continuum'' at Spitalfields Studios, with six of the other artists who had been involved in the 1960s and early 1970s in the arts labs of Drury Lane and Robert Street.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Curtis|first=David|title=London's New Arts Lab and 60s Avant Garde|year=2020 |publisher=John Libby Publishing|isbn=978-0-86196-748-3|pages=Appendix 1, 155}}</ref> In December 2019, Clute did a radio interview with Chiara Ambrosio for "The Raft, a London Story" on Resonance radio, 104.4 fm.<ref>{{Cite web|title=RAFT on RESONANCE 104.4 fm Episode 20|url=https://raftalondonstory.com/page/2/|access-date=November 11, 2021|website=RAFT - A London Story}}</ref>
== Reception == In 2006, Farah Mendlesohn compiled a festschrift for John and Judith Clute entitled ''Polder: A Festschrift for John Clute and Judith Clute'', saying in the book's introduction: "Judith Clute has been referred to as a fantasy artist. Within the genre this tends to conjure up images of fantasy illustration, but Judith's work is not an illustration of fantasy, but part of the fantastic genre itself … Judith turns the world around, exposes the mimetic as gloriously unnatural."<ref>{{Cite book|title=Polder: A Festschrift for John Clute and Judith Clute|year=2006 |publisher=Old Earth Books|isbn=1-882968-34-4|editor-last=Mendlesohn|editor-first=Farah|page=8}}</ref> Later on in the book Candas Jane Dorsey comments that Clute "sees the world with that fresh, slightly sideways glance that imposes no filters, and draws no foregone conclusions. As a result of combining that directness of observation with an accumulation of wordless wisdom, Judith has an eccentric and unique artistic vision, and thus a unique and eccentric body of significant work."<ref>{{Cite book|title=Polder: A Festschrift for John Clute and Judith Clute|publisher=Old Earth Books|year=2006|isbn=1-882968-34-4|editor-last=Mendlesohn|editor-first=Farah|page=56}}</ref>
In ''Judith Clute's Tantalizing 37th album'' Geoff Ryman said about her one-person show at Camden Images Gallery that "this is Judith Clute's 37th exhibition … You could call it expressionist except that works express calm, fluidity, balance, and elegance rather than rage of energy. Even when the content seems to be screaming."<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|title=Judith Clute's Tantalizing 37th Album|publisher=Beccon Publications|year=2019|isbn=978-1-870824-65-1|page=1}}</ref>
=== Awards === In 2017, Clute won the "Best Artist Award" delivered by the European Science Fiction Society.<ref>{{Cite web|title=2010-2019|url=https://www.esfs.info/esfs-awards/2010-2/|access-date=November 11, 2021|website=European Science Fiction Society}}</ref>
== Selected works == === Cover art and illustrations === * 1983: Cover for ''The Entropy Exhibition'' by Colin Greenland.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Greenland|first=Colin|title=The Entropy Exhibition: Michael Moorcock & The British 'New Wave' in Science Fiction|publisher=Routledge & Kegan Paul|year=1983|isbn=0-7100-9310-1}}</ref> * 1985: Three book covers for books by Joanna Russ published by The Women's Press ''The Female Man'',<ref>{{Cite book|last=Russ|first=Joanna|title=The Female Man|publisher=The Women's Press|year=1985|isbn=0-7043-3949-8}}</ref> Extra(ordinary) People<ref>{{Cite book|last=Russ|first=Joanna|title=Extra(ordinary) People|publisher=The Woman's Press|year=1985|isbn=0-7043-3950-1}}</ref> and ''The Adventures of Alex''.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Russ|first=Joanna|title=The Adventures of Alex|publisher=The Women's Press|year=1985|isbn=0-7043-3972-2}}</ref> * 1989: Further Joanna Russ covers for The Women's Press: ''The Hidden Side of the Moon''<ref>{{Cite book|last=Russ|first=Joanna|title=The Hidden Side of the Moon|publisher=The Women's Press|year=1989|isbn=0-7043-4185-9}}</ref> and ''We Who Are About To...''.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Russ|first=Joanna|title=We Who Are About To...|publisher=The Women's Press|year=1989|isbn=0-7043-4085-2}}</ref> * 1990: Cover and all interior images for the science fiction magazine ''Interzone'' 42.<ref>{{Cite magazine |date=1990|title=All Female Issue!|magazine=Interzone|number=42|pages=30–35|issn=0264-3596}}</ref> * 1995: Cover for ''Look at the Evidence; Essays and Reviews'' by John Clute.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Clute|first=John|title=Look at the Evidence: Essays and Reviews|publisher=Liverpool Press|year=1995|isbn=0-85323-820-0}}</ref> * 2000: Cover for ''Uncommon Places: Poems of the Fantastic'' by Judith Kerman and Don Riggs.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Kerman|first1=Judith|title=Uncommon Places: Poems of the Fantastic|last2=Riggs|first2=Don|publisher=Mayapple Press|year=2000|isbn=0-932412-17-3}}</ref> * 2003: Cover for ''Scores: Reviews 1993–2003'' by John Clute.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Clute|first=John|title=Scores: Reviews|publisher=Beccon Publications|year=2003|isbn=1-870824-48-2}}</ref> * 2005: Cover for ''Surroundings: Reviews 1992–1996'' by Gary K. Wolfe.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Wolfe|first=Gary K.|title=Reviews: 1992-1996|publisher=Beccon Publications|year=2005|isbn=1-870824-50-4}}</ref> * 2006: Cover and all interior illustrations for ''Chip Crockett's Christmas Carol'' by Elizabeth Hand.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Hand|first=Elizabeith|title=Chip Crockett's Christmas Carol|publisher=Beccon Publications|year=2006|isbn=1-870824-49-0}}</ref> * 2008: Etchings for Henry Wessells, in his Temporary Culture publication of ''Forever Peace. Stop War'' by Joe Haledeman.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Forever Peace. To Stop War. Poem by Joe Haldeman. Etchings by Judith Clute|url=https://temporary-culture.com/books/forever-peace-to-stop-war-poem-by-joe-haldeman-etchings-by-judith-clute/|access-date=November 4, 2021|website=Temporary Culture}}</ref> (Copies are held in the Morgan Library and Museum, Yale Library and Duke University.) * 2009: Cover for ''Canary Fever: Reviews'' by John Clute.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Clute|first=John|title=Canary Fever: Reviews|publisher=Beccon Publications|year=2009|isbn=978-1-870824-57-6}}</ref> * 2010: Cover for ''Bearings: Reviews 1997–2001'' by Gary K. Wolfe<ref>{{Cite book|last=Wolfe|first=Gary K.|title=Reviews: 1997-2001|publisher=Beccon Publications|year=2010|isbn=978-1-870824-58-3}}</ref> * 2011: Cover for ''Sightings: Reviews 2002–2006'', also by Gary K. Wolfe.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Wolfe|first=Gary K|title=Sightings: Reviews 2002-2006|publisher=Beccon Publications|year=2011|isbn=978-1-870824-61-3}}</ref> * 2011: Cover for ''Pardon This Intrusion: Fantastika in the World Storm'' by John Clute.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Clute|first=John|title=Pardon This Intrusion: Fanstistka in the World Storm|publisher=Beccon Publications|year=2011|isbn=978-1-870824-60-6}}</ref> * 2011: Clute's painting "Bone Scan" was used for the cover of the online magazine, ''Salon Futura'', issue 5.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Morgan|first=Cheryl|title=Issue #5|url=https://www.salonfutura.net/2011/01/issue-5/#more-1113|access-date=November 11, 2021|website=Salon Futura|date=18 January 2011 }}</ref> * 2014: Cover for ''Stay'' by John Clute.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Clute|first=John|title=Stay|publisher=Beccon Publications|year=2014|isbn=978-1-870824-63-7}}</ref> * 2017: Album cover for Amanda Palmer and Edward Ka-Spel's ''I Can Spin a Rainbow''.<ref>{{Cite web|title=I Can Spin a Rainbow|url=https://amandapalmer.bandcamp.com/album/i-can-spin-a-rainbow|access-date=November 11, 2021|website=Bandcamp}}</ref> * 2019: Illustration for a ''The New York Review of Books'' article entitled "A Universe of One's Own" by Nicole Rudrick reviewing ''The Future is Female!: 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women, from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin''.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Rudick|first=Nicole|date=July 18, 2019|title=A Universe of One's Own|url=https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/07/18/universe-of-ones-own-women-science-fiction/|access-date=November 11, 2021|journal=The New York Review of Books|volume=66 |issue=12 }}</ref> The illustration was Clutes's cover design for Joanna Russ's ''Female Man''.
== Selected bibliography == * The Association of Illustrators: 10th Annual, Rotovision, 1985, page 146, {{ISBN|2-88046-053-0}} * The Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Science Art Techniques, John Grant & Ron Tiner, Titan Books, 1996, page 163, {{ISBN|1-85286-702-7}} * Fantasy Art Masters: The Best In Fantasy and SF Art World Wide, Dick Jude, Harper Collins, 2002, page 38-49 inclusive, {{ISBN|0-00-713747-8}} * Paper Tiger Fantasy Art Gallery, edited by Paul Barnett, Paper Tiger, 2002, pages 30–35 inclusive, {{ISBN|1-85585-957-2}} * Interzone #188, editor David Pringle, "Still Turning Motifs Upside Down", Paul Brazier, Interzone Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2003, pages 34–36 inclusive, {{ISSN|0264-3596}} * Polder: A Festschrift for John Clute and Judith Clute, edited by Farah Mendlesohn, Old Earth Books, 2006. {{ISBN|1-882968-34-4}} * London's Arts Labs and the 60's Avant Garde, David Curtis, John Libbey Publishing, 2020, pages 117-118 inclusive, {{ISBN|978-0-86196-748-3}}
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== External links == *{{official|https://www.judithclute.com/}}
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