Education
Along with her sisters Margaret and Dora, Gertrude was apprenticed to George Bridge, an artist and worker in mosaics, who had a business premise in Mitcham Park and a studio in Oxford Street.
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Gertrude Martin
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Career
Gertrude become one of an elite group of women master mosaicists. In 1902 George and his 26 women mosaicists began an extended period of work in Westminster Cathedral. In the 1920s the sisters worked on two arched panels in the Central Lobby in the Houses of Parliament.
Designed by Robert Anning Bell the mosaic depicting Street Andrew was completed in 1923 and Street Patrick in 1924.
Gertrude died at her home in Street James"s Crescent.
