Edwina Sandys, “All About Eve,” April 2021
New Exhibition Edwina Sandys, “All About Eve,” April 2021
Full disclosure. Edwina Sandys and I grew up a couple of London streets apart, where Knightsbridge meets Chelsea, and I got to know the bright, outspoken young woman fairly well. I also soon got to know the art that Sandys was making and showing. This was bright and the visual equivalent of “outspoken” too, with observant touches which captured the feel and mood of that time and place.
The scope of Sandys’ work has broadened since she moved to Manhattan at the beginning of the ‘80s. She has created strong public works, and she continues to paint and draw with her singular line, which is at once fluent, incisive, witty and not infrequently naughty.
This linear energy is also a feature in her marble and bronze sculptures, along with her radical use of negative space. Edwina’s work with its energy and quirky individuality are refreshingly free of references – wholly New York.
-Anthony Haden-Guest
EDWINA SANDYS
Edwina’s most recent work is WAR & PEACE a ten foot aluminum sculpture depicting a flat fighter plane with a bird of peace cut through as a void. The artistic appeal of Edwina Sandys lies in her powerful subject matter. She has tackled profound ideas with panache. Her clearly recognizable style uses positive and negative images to dramatic effect.
During the past 40 years, Edwina has created art of international acclaim that includes sculpture and paintings. In 1975 her bronze sculpture, which made international news – Christa a naked female Christ. For the 1979 United Nations’ Year of the Child, she created monumental sculptures, installed at UN centers in New York, Geneva, and Vienna. A decade later she created Woman Free for the United Nations’ Division for the Advancement of Women, Vienna, Austria. In 1989, to mark the end of the Cold War, Edwina used sections of the Berlin Wall to create a sculpture, Breakthrough, now permanently sited at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, where in 1946 her grandfather Winston Churchill gave his historic “Iron Curtain” speech.
Edwina does not focus solely on political subjects, but frequently explores the relationships between man and woman. Major works include her series The States of Woman for the New York Academy of Sciences, which includes her iconic Eve’s Apple, and The Marriage Bed, which is in the permanent collection of the Brooklyn Museum of Art.
British born Edwina Sandys is a United States citizen and has been a New Yorker since the 1970’s. Edwina was married for thirty years to New York architect, the late Richard D. Kaplan.
Through her unique life experience, Edwina relates her work to the global issues of our time; environment, equality, war and peace, and in particular women’s causes, and emancipation. Her art is now reaching a broad audience through the PBS biographical documentary One Bite of the Apple and her book Edwina Sandys ART.
Recipient – 1997 United Nations Society of Writers & Artists Award for Excellence
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