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The artistic appeal of Edwina Sandys lies in her diverse subject matter. She has tackled big ideas with panache. Her clearly recognizable style uses positive and negative images to dramatic effect.
Oct 23, 2021 · Today, it hangs in New York’s Cathedral of St. John the Divine. Meanwhile, her 1990 sculpture, Breakthrough, featuring figures carved from pieces of the Berlin Wall, was donated to Missouri’s Westminster College, the site of Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech in 1946.
- Mike Crisolago
May 7, 2019 · But Edwina Sandys, the artist behind 11-foot-high, 32-foot-long sculpture, also has a direct connection to that history: She is Churchill's granddaughter. Sandys, who returned to Fulton last weekend for the 50th anniversary celebration of the museum, joined guest host Jim Kirchherr on Tuesday’s St. Louis on the Air.
Welcome to my world and my art…. Copyright 2022–24 Edwina Sandys
One year after the November 9, 1989, fall of the Berlin Wall, artist Edwina Sandys, granddaughter of Winston Churchill, introduced her Breakthrough sculpture to a crowd of 7,000 people gathered on the campus of Westminster College.
Oct 1, 2021 · The granddaughter of the once prime minister of England has — at 82! — a new show opening at the Iona Studio.
Sep 12, 2019 · Churchill’s granddaughter, the noted artist Edwina Sandys, MBE, has called the Berlin Wall “the physical embodiment of the Iron Curtain.” After the Wall was dismantled in 1989, the reunited German government gave Sandys her pick of eight of its concrete panels to use as a medium for her art.
