Research published in 2018<\/a> found that of 828 statues recorded by the Public Monuments and Sculpture Association, just 174 of them were female. Of these, 80 were of named women.<\/p>\n“I just think it’s fantastic that this is a sculpture of a woman and made by a woman. I do think it’s a positive thing,” Biala said. <\/p>\n
Tom Huggon, a retired lawyer and campaigner for green spaces, attended the unveiling on Friday. <\/p>\n
“It’s brilliant because it combines not only the figure of Maid Marian but also all the greenery. It’s so delicate too,” Huggon said. <\/p>\n
Huggon, who is also Nottingham’s official honorary Town Crier, added: “One of the difficulties is that Robin Hood has always been regarded as the dominant personality of the two. <\/p>\n
“But there are so many different legends, you know, who was Maid Marian? But here she is commemorated.” <\/p>\n
Arts charity BACKLIT, which worked closely with Biala, has also launched an exhibition called ‘Our Marian’ at its gallery near Sneinton Market in Nottingham. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nottingham City Council previously said the artwork was also part of a commitment to address the “under-representation” of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":697116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-697115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/697116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}