Unity Spencer

Unity Spencer (24 May 1930 – 18 October 2017) was a British artist. She was the daughter of artists Stanley Spencer and Hilda Carline.

Biography[edit]

Unity Spencer was born on 24 May 1930 in Hampstead, London, the second daughter of Stanley Spencer and his wife Hilda Carline, both artists.^[1] She was educated at the Badminton School, Wimbledon School of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art.^[1] Following the break-up of the Spencers' marriage by the mid-1930s, Unity lived with her mother, while her elder sister, Shirin, was sent to live with a relative, and the sisters grew up apart.^[2] She had one-person shows at Lauderdale House in Highgate in 1993, the Boundary Gallery in St John's Wood in 2001, and the Fine Art Society in Bond Street in 2015.^[1]

In 1961, she met Leslie Lambert (died 1971), and they had a son in 1963, but they never married.^[1] In the last eighteen months of her life, she moved to live in Cowbridge, south Wales, with her son John and sister Shirin Spencer.^[3] A BBC documentary, Stanley and His Daughters, shown after Unity's death, included interviews with both sisters in which they talked about their childhood and the decision to move in together.^[4]

Spencer died of kidney failure on 18 October 2017.^[1][3] She was buried in Cookham, Berkshire, close to her mother.^[3]

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