Gerry Judah
Gerry Judah (1951) was born in Calcutta and lives and works in London. Judah studied Foundation Art and Design at Barnet College of Art, before completing a BA Fine Art at Goldsmiths College, University of London and Postgraduate Sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. He then set up his studio in Shaftesbury Avenue, in London’s West End and collaborated with the Royal Opera House, English National Opera, Royal Festival Ballet, London Contemporary Dance, Sadler’s Wells Royal Ballet, Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal National Theatre. Taken with the public nature of this work Judah decided to find settings for his own art in more public arenas than just the rarefied spaces of conventional galleries. He created settings for the BBC, British Museum, Museum of Mankind, Natural History Museum, Imperial War Museum, Museum of Tolerance and musicians including Paul McCartney, Michael Jackson, Robert Plant & Jimmy Page and The Who. Judah was commissioned by the Imperial War Museum in London to create a large model of the selection ramp in Auschwitz-Birkenau for the Holocaust Exhibition opened by Queen Elizabeth II. In 2011, Judah went on to install ‘The Crusader’ at Imperial War Museum, Manchester and in 2014 he exhibited two monumental ‘Great War’ sculptures at St Paul’s Cathedral. He has also created important largescale works for the annual Goodwood Festival of Speed, bridges in London and Cambridge and monumental sculptures for institutions in Texas, New Zealand and the United Arab Emirates.
Important solo exhibitions include ‘Bengal : The Four Elements’, Grizedale Forest Gallery, UK (2020), ‘Bengal’, The High Commission of India, London, (2019), ‘Fragile Lands’, Encounter, London (2015-16), ‘Great War Sculptures’, St Paul’s Cathedral, London (2014), ‘The Crusader’, Imperial War Museum, Manchester (2010), ‘Country’, Fitzroy Gallery, New York (2010), ‘Babylon’, Flowers East Gallery, London (2009), ‘Country’, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton (2009), ‘Motherlands’, Louis T Blouin Foundation, London (2007), ‘Angels’, British High Commission, Delhi (2007), ‘Angels’, Royal Institute of British Architects, London (2006), ‘Frontiers’, Timber Yard, London (2005). Selected group exhibitions include ‘Fermata’, Encounter, London 2022, ‘Shapes in Clouds’, Encounter, London (2020), ‘Inspired by Nature’, Grizedale Forest Gallery, Grizedale (2018), ‘Dead : A Celebration of Mortality’, Saatchi Gallery, London (2015), ‘Tipping Point’, Wolverhampton Art Gallery’, Wolverhampton (2013), ‘Art and Architecture’ Belgravia Gallery, London (2008), ‘Mediteraneo’, Italian Cultural Institute, London (2007), ‘Works from the David Roberts Foundation’, David Roberts Foundation, London (2007).
Judah’s work is held in important public and private collections internationally including; Saatchi Collection, Gibbs Farm Sculpture Park, Imperial War Museum, Museum of Old and New Art, Arts Council Collection, Zabludowicz Collection, Mittal Collection, David Roberts Foundation, Cass Sculpture Foundation, Arts Council Collection, Centre for Arts Tel Aviv, House of Wisdom.
