‘In Victory & Defeat Alike Is Harmony’
The Festival logo was designed by the distinguished sculptor Eric Gill in 1935. Arthur Eric Rowton Gill was born in Brighton in 1882. The family moved to Chichester in 1897 where Gill attended the Technical & Art School. He then went on to study at the Central School in London, where he later taught. From 1907 to 1924 he lived in Ditchling village in Sussex. Gill led a bohemian life, where his strong Roman Catholic views contrasted with his sexuality and erotic works. Among his sculptures are the Stations of the Cross in Westminster Cathedral and the group ‘Prospero and Arial’ for the BBC’s Broadcasting House. He designed many typefaces including Sans Serif, Perpetua and Gill Sans MT. An example of his lettering in stone is the memorial tablet to Percy Hiscock in Chichester Cathedral. Gill died in Uxbridge in 1940.
Simon Blumlein.