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Gee Vaucher
/ref> in 1945 in Dagenham, Essex, England) is a visual artist primarily associated with the anarcho-punk band Crass.
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In 1967, inspired by the film Inn of the Sixth Happiness, There is No Authority But Yourself, dir. Alexander Oey, 2006 they set up the anarchist/pacifist open house 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.
Vaucher is vegetarian.
She continues to design sleeves for Babel Label, and also designed the sleeve for The Charlatans' Who We Touch album. Vaucher has exhibited at the 96 Gillespie gallery in London. In 2007 and 2008, the Jack Hanley Gallery in San Francisco and Track 16 in Santa Monica ran exhibitions titled "Gee Vaucher: Introspective", showing a wide selection of Vaucher's work.
On the day after Donald Trump's election victory in November 2016, the British Daily Mirror newspaper featured Vaucher's 1989 painting Oh America on its front page.
In her second book, Animal Rites: a pictorial study of relationships, she gives a commentary on the relationship between animals and humans, centered on the quote "Animal Farm."
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