Judith Ackland

Judith Ackland (1892–1971) was an English artist, a landscape painter and creator of dioramas.

Biography Judith Agnes Maud Ackland was born at Stowford House on Bideford Strand in 1892, the daughter of Charles Kingsley Ackland, a well-known doctor from Bideford, Devon.

She studied art at the Bideford Art School and then moved to The Regent Street Polytechnic (now part of the University of Westminster) where she met fellow student Mary Stella Edwards (1893–1989). Together with Edwards, she produced dioramas, Ackland made all the models (she invented a method called "Jackanda" to make the models), Listed in 2017, the Cabin is one of the England's landmarks to be given listed status as part of a "queer histories" project.

Exhibitions The Boston Marriage of Judith Ackland and Mary Stella Edwards: watercolourists and diorama makers, 20th Annual Lesbian Lives Conference, 15–16 February 2013, Brighton