Edwina Sandys (born 22 December 1938) is an English artist and

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. She is the granddaughter of

Winston Churchill Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from 1940 to 1945 Winston Churchill in the Second World War, dur ...

Early life

Sandys was a

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and was presented to

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. After attending a genteel girls’ school she went to Paris, then had a job "answering the doorbell" for a dress designer, and a stint as a secretary. She later became a ''

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'' columnist and a novelist. Her career as an artist began in 1970.

Notable works

HPIM4287 Berlin wall recreated at Fulton, USA

Sandys' work titled " Breakthrough", at Westminster College,

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, features eight sections of the

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. The college was the site of her grandfather Sir

's famous "

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" speech in 1946 and is now the site of the

National Churchill Museum America’s National Churchill Museum (formerly the Winston Churchill Memorial and Library), is located on the Westminster College campus in Fulton, Missouri, United States. The museum commemorates Sir Winston Churchill, the former Prime Minister ...

. Sandys also worked with the

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, located in

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, to use a new way to make deep cuts in

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to create the Millennium Arch sculpture which stands across the campus from their Stonehenge monument. The Arch is a single

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with a vague silhouette of a man and a woman on each of its supporting megaliths, several meters from the arch. In an interview with ''

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'' Edwina discusses one of her more well known works, "Christa". Edwina describes her reasoning behind the sculpture, explaining that though she is not a religious person, she felt the need to represent women within what's often considered the most important image: Jesus on the cross. She states that the sculpture showed the suffering of women as well. Edwina Sandys Odette Sculpture Park

Publications

Her published works include the book ''Edwina Sandys Art'', and an illustrated quiz book entitled ''Social Intercourse''.

Honours

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1984 New Year Honours for services to British cultural interests in New York.

Personal life

She is the eldest daughter and second child of Baron Duncan-Sandys and

Diana Churchill Diana Spencer-Churchill (11 July 1909 – 20 October 1963) was the eldest daughter of British statesman Sir Winston Churchill and Clementine Churchill, Baroness Spencer-Churchill. Personal life Diana Churchill was born at 33 Eccleston ...

, and a granddaughter of the statesman

Sir Winston Churchill Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 187424 January 1965) was a British statesman, soldier, and writer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice, from 1940 to 1945 during the Second World War, and again from 1 ...

. She married

Piers Dixon Pierson John Shirley Dixon (29 December 1928 – 24 March 2017), known as Piers Dixon, was a British Conservative Party politician who represented Truro between 1970 and 1974. Early life The son of diplomat and writer, Sir Pierson Dixon, he wa ...

in 1960 and they were divorced in 1970. They have two sons, Mark Pierson Dixon (b. 1962) and Hugo Duncan Dixon (b. 1963). She married the architect Richard D. Kaplan in 1985; he died in 2016.

References

External links

Edwina Sandys at tate.org.uk
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