Mary Wollstonecraft statue

The actual figure is tiny.

www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/mary-wollstonecraft-sculpture-covered-clothes-feminism-b65266.html?fbclid=IwAR1Lwblu2mO4rJwGVYHBzEpJgEFlAPmlLMRuLgv1mfbY3lWxX3nJgFrn-ag

I love his Women of Steel - that’s how to do a statue FOR someone.

Those sculptures by Martin Jennings are wonderful. If only he'd done Mary Wolstencroft.

Thanks suzie, I am deeply embarrassed at my inability to do links.

Galaxy

Thanks suzie, I am deeply embarrassed at my inability to do links.

There’s plenty of us who will give you online lessons - just ask

I am quite reasonable online generally. I just feel I missed that basic step somewhere though. Like being able to cook but not being able to make an omelette!

Galaxy I enjoy your posts but I was slightly alarmed this morning to read that you are looking forward to a statue of Churchill with his penis out. ??
I agree with the general opinion on here I much preferred the alternative one Suziewoozie showed.

Actually I thought the statue looked like a mini Maggi Hambling perched on the top.

Everyone is entitled to a hobby Lucca

Suziewoozie we are very proud here of our ‘Women of Steel’.

I think her pubic hair looks like a scouring pad ?

I don’t suppose Maggi Hambling, whose paintings I like a great deal, gives a toss what anyone thinks of her sculpture but I do think she’s missed the mark with this one, naked or not. The proportions are very peculiar. I remember seeing the sculpture by Mark Quinn, ‘Alison Lapper Pregnant’ on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square and thinking how beautiful that was. No contest.

Here is the ‘statue’ of our heroine.
Says it all really

I should have said our local heroine. Her final letter to her parents has just been given to the Cathedral in Norwich.

I didn’t realise it was so small and she has a rather bulbous ‘area’
no not appropriate I too like the runner up much better so who are the people who voted for it ? All middle aged men ?

A pile of silverised landfill topped with a naked Barbie doll.
Looks like Maggi Hambling left it too late and just threw something together last Tuesday.

Greyduster

I don’t suppose Maggi Hambling, whose paintings I like a great deal, gives a toss what anyone thinks of her sculpture but I do think she’s missed the mark with this one, naked or not. The proportions are very peculiar. I remember seeing the sculpture by Mark Quinn, ‘Alison Lapper Pregnant’ on the fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square and thinking how beautiful that was. No contest.

I loved the Alison Lapper Pregnant - I was working regularly in London at that time and loved nothing more than being stuck in a traffic jam in Trafalgar Square so I could feast my eyes on it. It was such a powerful statement of women and disability. I wonder where it is now?

BlueBelle

I didn’t realise it was so small and she has a rather bulbous ‘area’
no not appropriate I too like the runner up much better so who are the people who voted for it ? All middle aged men ?

I have an awful suspicion that they were a bunch of people full of wokeness.
Lucy ???

twitter.com/sueharrison123/status/1326557414506831877?s=21

MW seeing the statue for the first time

Whose lucy

IMO it’s rather ugly.
And is it me, or is the pubic hair a mite overdone?

I can’t help wondering what MW would think!

The white cape is made of two face masks - showing how tiny the figure is.

I saw a comment on Twitter that it will be constantly dressed and stickered - making it a piece of real public art.

BlueBelle

Whose lucy

A poster - Lucylash

Perhaps Maggie Hamlin has a way of looking at a woman which is not the same as most women might want to see another woman.