Frances segelman derek jacobi biography

Frances Segelman is a sculptor.

Self-taught Frances Segelman was born and brought up in Leeds. Her family owned a chain of cinemas, including the Empire in Rawdon and the Forum on Chapeltown Road. At age 14, whilst at Gateways School, Harewood, Leeds she was spotted by a modelling agency and started doing professional modelling.

She moved to London and took up sculpting as a hobby.

She has sculpted a wide variety of public figures including Billy Bremner outside Elland Road for Leeds United; the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh, and the actors Joanna Lumley and Sir Derek Jacobi.

She is famous for her ‘speed sculpting’ producing many of her works within a two-hour timeframe, and sometimes in front of a live audience (see supporting links).

Segelman said,
‘The Queen was very chatty – in fact too chatty because when you have only an hour and a half to do the work, you savour the time.

You know it’s wonderful to be with her, but on the other hand, you