Karen Newman (artist)
# Karen Newman (artist)

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.

## Career

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.

