Karen Newman (artist)

Karen Newman
Born	(1951-01-20) 20 January 1951 (age 73) London, England
Occupation	Sculptor
Period	from 1965 onwards
Genre	Figurative sculpture
Subject	Portrait sculpture
Website
karen-newman.com

Karen Newman MRBS (born 20 January 1951) is a British-born sculptor, best known for her bronze bust of Violette Szabo on the Albert Embankment of the River Thames, outside Lambeth Palace in London.^[1]

Career

Bust of Noor Inayat Khan by Newman, Gordon Square

Newman was trained at the Chelsea School of Art for a Pre-Diploma 1969–1970, then on to the City and Guilds Art School in Kennington, London 1970–1972. From 1980 to 2001 Newman worked at Madame Tussauds in London. Among her subjects were:

• The Duke of Edinburgh
• Charlie Chaplin
• The late ex-Prime Minister Harold Wilson
• Sarah, Duchess of York
• Stevie Wonder
• Eric Clapton
• Bob Geldof
• Prime Minister Tony Blair
• The late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzak Rabin
• Jeroen Krabbé. Dutch film actor, painter.
• Chancellor Helmut Kohl
• Jean-Paul Gaultier
• Yoko Ono
• Charles Dance
• Hugh Grant
• Billy Connolly

Newman's life-size waxwork of Charlie Chaplin was exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery, London.

In 2008, a bronze bust of Violette Szabo was unveiled at the Albert Embankment of the River Thames, in front of Lambeth Palace.^[2]

References

1. "Royal British Society of Sculptors". Archived from the original on 3 July 2008. Retrieved 28 May 2009.
2. "Secret agents' memorial unveiled". BBC. 4 October 2009. Retrieved 26 June 2018.

External links

Artworks by or after Karen Newman at the Art UK site