biography
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| female
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| lived:
| (1931– )
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| biography:
| Artist, born in London, UK. She studied at Goldsmith's College of Art (1949–52) and the Royal College of Art (1952–5). Her first one-woman exhibition was in London at Gallery One in 1962, followed by others worldwide. She is a leading practitioner of Op Art, manipulating overall flat patterns, originally in black and white but later in colour, using repeated shapes or undulating lines, often creating an illusion of movement, as seen in ‘Fall’ (1963, Tate, London). She was the first English painter to win the major painting prize at the Venice Biennale (1968). She was made a Companion of Honour in 1998. |
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