Edwina sandys biography of martin
Edwina sandys biography of martin
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Edwina Sandys
English sculptor
Edwina SandysMBE (born 22 December 1938)[1] is an English artist and sculptor. She is the granddaughter of Winston Churchill.
Early life
Sandys was a debutante, and was presented to Queen Elizabeth II.[2] 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.[3] She later became a Sunday Telegraph columnist and a novelist.[2] Her career as a visual artist began in 1970.[3]
Notable works
Sandys' work titled "Breakthrough", at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, features eight sections of the Berlin Wall.
The college was the site of her grandfather Sir Winston Churchill's famous "Iron Curtain" speech in 1946[4] and is now the site of the National Churchill Museum.[5] The silhouette cutouts from the Wall segments became the premise of another work, "BreakFree", displayed a