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'I don't have a relationship with my face': Judi Dench models for a live sculpture

by Catherine Shoard

To raise money for lymphoedema research, the actor sat before an audience for artist Frances Segelman, who admired her youthful, 'pixie-like' face while rendering it in clay It began as a blob: a 12kg lump of clay the size of a watermelon. Three hours later, it had become Judi Dench's head, 50% larger than usual, twinkle-eyed even in terracotta. At Claridge's hotel in London on Monday evening, Frances Segelman hosted…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 1:24pm on May 20, 2025