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Karen Newman ARBS 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.Karen was formally 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 Karen worked at Madame Tussauds, in London Among her subjects were:

• HRH 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

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

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