11 Facts About Gerry Judah

Gerald David Judah FRSS is a British artist and designer who has created settings for theatre, film, television, museums and public spaces.

Gerry Judah's mother was born in Calcutta and his father in Rangoon.

Gerry Judah was born in Calcutta and grew up in West Bengal before his family, along with his brother and sister, moved to London when he was ten years old.

Gerry Judah was taken with the public nature of this work and decided to find settings for his own art in more public arenas than the rarefied spaces of conventional galleries.

Gerry Judah began to build a reputation for innovative design, working in film, television, theatre, and in museums as a set designer, installation artist, sculptor and painter.

Gerry Judah created settings for the BBC, British Museum, Natural History Museum, Imperial War Museum, Paul McCartney, Michael Jackson, Led Zeppelin, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page, The Who, David Bailey, Terence Donovan, Sting, Godley and Creme and Ridley Scott Associates.

Gerry Judah has created sculptures for Ferrari, Porsche, Audi, Jaguar, Mercedes-Benz, Renault, Ford, Rolls-Royce, Honda, Toyota, Land Rover, Alfa Romeo and Lotus at the annual Goodwood Festival of Speed and has designed bridges in London and Cambridge.

Gerry Judah designed a sculpture for Human Rights which was to be sited in Potters Fields, on the South Bank next to Tower Bridge in London and another in Sheffield across the road from the railway station.

Amongst a number of commissions from public museums and institutions, Gerry Judah was asked 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 the Queen.

Gerry Judah has exhibited internationally with the inaugural exhibition 'COUNTRY' at Fitzroy Gallery, New York in December 2010.

In 2014, St Paul's Cathedral commissioned Gerry Judah to create an artwork in the nave of the cathedral to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the First World War.