Jane Robbins (sculptor)

[1] She trained initially at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama and later studied traditional figurative sculpture at the Stafford Art College.

[4] Robbins career started as working in theatre and television to produce props and sets, making use of sculpting and painting [2] Her practice has developed into primarily making commissions of figurative and portrait sculptures in bronze or resin, along with some continuing work for television (e.g. props for In the Night Garden... on BBC).

[5] Her monumental cast bronze sculptures include: Fred Dibnah, 9 feet (2.7 m) tall, located Oxford Street in Bolton; a seated life size statue of Linda McCartney holding a lamb (2002) installed in the grounds of the Campbeltown Museum, on the Kintyre peninsula in Scotland; a bust of Ken Dodd that is now in Liverpool Central Library and a statue of the cartoon character Andy Capp standing in a small park between Croft Terrace and York Place, Hartlepool, County Durham.

In 2010 a sculpture by Robbins of a miner was installed to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Pretoria Pit disaster at a coalmine in Lancashire.

[1] She was commissioned by the Monumental Welsh Women project[6] to make a statue of Margaret Haig Thomas, 2nd Viscountess Rhondda, businesswoman and suffragette, which was installed in Newport in 2024.