Prunella Clough (1919–1999) was a British artist known mostly for her paintings.
Leaving behind the industrial-inspired figuration of her early works, Prunella Clough's innovative abstraction developed largely out of step with any artistic movement or milieu: impervious to the advent of Pop, she was more taken by the
Minimalism of Donald Judd and
Sol LeWitt, which may have accentuated her sense of restraint. Amy Sillman calls Clough "a 'conceptual painter' avant la lettre," while Merlin James emphasizes how she "anticipated many traits in post-modern painting." Awarded the Jerwood Painting Prize in 1999 shortly before her death, Clough was recognized with significant solo exhibitions at Annely Juda Fine Art Gallery (1989), the Camden Arts Center (1996), and a posthumous Tate Britain retrospective (2007).
