Millicent Fawcett
2018
Bronze
The statue of Millicent Fawcett in Parliament Square, London, honours the British suffragist leader and social campaigner Dame Millicent Fawcett. It was designed in 2018 by Gillian Wearing, and manufactured by MDM Props.
SectorArt, Visitor Attractions
locationLondon, UK
clientArtist Gillian Wearing
About ProjectphotoMatt Snellin
The bronze statue portrays Dame Millicent at the age of 50, when she became president of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS). The figure holds a banner reading ‘COURAGE CALLS TO COURAGE EVERYWHERE’, an extract from a speech Fawcett gave in 1920.
She wears a walking suit, typical attire of that period featuring an overcoat and a long dress. The pattern and texture of the tweed fabric was integrated into the bronze of the suit. The Fawcett Society lent a piece of Fawcett's jewellery which was scanned and incorporated it into the statue's design.
