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.^[1]

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.^[2]