Gee Vaucher

Gee Vaucher is an artist and activist born in Dagenham – when the town was still part of Essex. Gee studied art at the South-East Essex School of Art. In the late 1960s Gee moved into Dial House near Epping, an ‘open house where people continue to be welcome, have a cuppa and share ideas’. Dial House has always been a hub of creativity and became the base for the punk inspired band Crass. As a member of the group, she provided the artwork for all the covers plus films for the stage. Gee has always been seen as a political illustrator and whilst living in New York worked for various newspapers and magazines including The New York Times and New York Magazine, Rolling Stone, Ebony etc. When Donald Trump was elected President in 2017, her painting ‘Oh America’, which featured the Statue of Liberty with head in hands, was widely used across the world’s media and on the streets. In 2016 Firstsite in Colchester, held the first retrospective of Gee’s work. She continues to live, work and agitate near Epping and beyond.