An Irish abstract and landscape artist of British descent, Camille Souter was born in 1929 and passed away in March 2023. She was an Aosdána Saoi who resided and employed on Achill Island.
In 1956, she performed alone for the first time at El Habano on Grafton Street. The next year, Souter’s solo exhibition at the Dublin-based Clog Gallery featured a variety of his monotypes, gouaches, and oils. In 1958, her artwork was displayed at the New Vision Gallery in London. In 1958, Souter received a scholarship that allowed her to return to Italy for a year. She represented Ireland at the Paris Biennale in 1961. Souter has regularly shown since 1953 with the Irish Exhibition of Living Art, since 1960 with the Independent Artists, and since 1970 with the Oireachtas.
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Souter relocated to Enniskerry, County Wicklow after being married to the sculptor Frank Morris in 1960, and then she made her home at Calary Bog. Before Morris’s death from sepsis in 1970, the couple had four kids together. Four of Souter’s works were included in the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery exhibition The Irish Imagination 1959–1971 in 1971. The exhibition later traveled to Washington, D.C., to promote Irish culture overseas. She was given the Gainey Prize by the Irish American Cultural Institute in 1975. The Grand Prize International de l’Art Contemporain de Monte Carlo succeeded this in 1977.