Editing Gee Vaucher (section)

== Biography ==
Vaucher met her long-lasting creative partner [[Penny Rimbaud]] in the early 1960s when both were attending the [[South-East Essex Technical College and School of Art]].<ref name="Berger" /> The name 'Gee' derives from 'Grout', Rimbaud having responded to something Vaucher was complaining about with 'stop grouting' (rather than 'stop grousing'); "I said, 'you mean grousing'. Anyway, the Grout name stuck and everyone started calling me Grout, and then it gradually got shortened to Gee."<ref>https://thequietus.com/culture/books/gee-vaucher-crass-art-interview/</ref>

In 1967, inspired by the film ''[[Inn of the Sixth Happiness]]'',<ref>''[[There is No Authority But Yourself]]'', dir. [[Alexander Oey]], 2006</ref> they set up the anarchist/[[pacifist]] open house [[Dial House, Essex|Dial House]] in Essex, UK, which has now become firmly established as a 'centre for radical creativity'.

In 2016, Vaucher was awarded an honorary doctorate from the [[University of Essex]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.essex.ac.uk/news/event.aspx?e_id=10167 |title=University of Essex :: Latest news :: Honorary Graduands announced |access-date=2016-04-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160425000919/http://www.essex.ac.uk/news/event.aspx?e_id=10167 |archive-date=2016-04-25 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Vaucher is [[vegetarian]].<ref>{{cite web|access-date=5 September 2018|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/anarchy-and-peace-with-penny-rimbaud-of-crass/|publication-date=1 March 2017|title=Anarchy and Peace with Penny Rimbaud of Crass|website=[[Noisey]]|first=Andy |last=Capper|author-link=Andy Capper|format=video and text|url-status=live|archive-date=26 August 2018|archive-url=https://archive.today/20180826024657/https://via.hypothes.is/https://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/article/ypkzm5/anarchy-and-peace-with-penny-rimbaud-of-crass}}</ref>