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...Requiring little after-work, the sculpture’s vitality derives directly from the artist’s bravura manipulation of the wax....
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...The following year she won the Rising Star prize at the Brit Awards, a fast-track route to chart prominence previously bestowed on Adele and Florence and the Machine....
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