ArtistGillian Jagger

Gillian Jagger is a noted sculptor and teacher. She was born in London in 1930, the daughter of the celebrated English artist, Charles Sargeant Jagger, sculptor of the Royal Artillery Memorial in Hyde Park, No-Man’s Land at the Tate, Britain, and a number of other prominent works in London and throughout England, Belgium, Egypt, and India.

Gillian Jagger's home and studio is a farm in the rural village of Kerhonkson, New York, about 100 miles north of New York City. Her work is rooted in the natural world in which she lives and works, a world that includes her horses, dogs, and cats. Her work is monumental and her materials include huge tree trunks, farm implements, casts of dead animals and, in some works, the actual corpses of animals she has found on her property. One of her latest works consists of fragments of a plaster cast she made immediately after her lead horse, Faith, was killed in a tragic accident.

In November, 2002, a major retrospective of her work will be shown at the Elvehjem Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Jagger was the Distinguished Professor of Sculpture at the Pratt Institute, and a visiting professor at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.