Gillian Lowndes (19 June 1936[1] – 2 October 2010) was an English ceramics sculptor.
Born in West Kirby, Cheshire[1] [2] in 1936, she spent much of her childhood in British India. She studied at the Central School of Arts and Crafts beginning in 1957 and spent a year at L'École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1960. In the early 1970s she travelled to Nigeria with her husband, Ian Auld, a trip that would prove to be influential in her subsequent work. From 1975 until the early 1990s, she taught part-time at Camberwell College of Arts and Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design.[citation needed]