Shelagh Wakely (22 October 1932 – 19 March 2011) was a British sculptor and experimental artist. Wakely was born in Madingley, Cambridgeshire in 1932. She studied painting and screen-printing at the

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in the late 1950s. She also studied at the

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. She began her career as a textile designer. Her work is included in the collections of the

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and the

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