Wilhelmina Geddes

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Wilhelmina Geddes (1887–1955) was an Irish stained glass artist. She had a workshop at the An Túr Gloine and was a member of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Important achievements included windows at St. Bartholomew’s in Ottawa, Canada.

Geddes was born on 25 May 1887, the eldest of four children, in County Leitrim, in what is now the Republic of Ireland. She studied as an artist at the Belfast School of Art and in Dublin under William Orpen. She was invited by Sarah Purser to join An Túr Gloine (Tower of Glass) which was a cooperative stained glass studio in Dublin, where she learned stained glass techniques from others in the cooperative. On her 38th birthday she moved to London where she had a studio at the Glass House in Fulham, which had been set up by Mary Lowndes and Alfred J. Drury where her pupils included Evie Hone.

Her work was considered pioneering and represented a rejection of the Late Victorian approach.^[1] She created a new view of men in stained glass windows, portraying them with close-shaven crew cuts. Her three-light window for Ottawa had already attracted considerable attention in London, where it was briefly exhibited en route from Dublin to Canada. It is known worldwide to stained glass connoisseurs as the “Ottawa Window”.

Always known as erratic, Geddes had a nervous breakdown in 1925 and spent six months in hospital under medication.^[2] She had fears of contact with comets or dead stars. Indeed she had included coloured shooting stars in her windows from 1914.

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St Luke’s, Wallsend
All Saints’, Laleham
St Molaise’s, Monea, County Fermanagh
St Patrick’s and Colomba, Larne, County Antrim
St Mildred, Lee, East London
All Hallows, Greenford, London
St Michael, Northchapel, West Sussex
Small Chapel, Karori Cemetery, Karori, Wellington, New Zealand
St Peter's, Lampeter
Currane Church, Achill, Co. Mayo, Achill Island

References

↑ Shirley Anne Brown. “Wilhelmina Geddes Ottawa Window”. Irish Arts Review 1994 Vol 10.
↑ Nicola Gordon Bowe, “A window with a punch”

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