![]() Rowan is known for his work in bronze and this is the first time he carved in marble since his student years. Rowan Gillespie’s sculpture of Mary Wollstonecraft was modelled in wax, 3-d-scanned, milled in Carrara marble and then carved and fine finished. ![]() ![]() The sculptures are the work of four accomplished artists: Maudie Brady (Ada Lovelace) Rowan Gillespie (Mary Wollstonecraft) Vera Klute (Rosalind Franklin) and Guy Reid (Augusta Gregory). Librarian & College Archivist, Helen Shenton, Provost, Dr Linda Doyle & Curator & Head of the University Art Collections, Catherine Giltrap viewing Mary Wollstonecraft. Their addition represents a first step toward a better representation of our diversity in all of Trinity’s public spaces. The new sculptures were launched by Trinity’s Chancellor Dr Mary McAleese at a ceremony in the Long Room. The current artworks represent men throughout history, from Homer and Shakespeare to Dean Jonathan Swift, Sir Rowan Hamilton and Wolfe Tone. The new sculptures, the first to be commissioned in more than a century, will be displayed among the 40 marble sculpture-busts that line Trinity’s historic Long Room, which were hitherto all of men. The women represented are the scientist Rosalind Franklin, the folklorist, dramatist and theatre-founder Augusta Gregory, the mathematician Ada Lovelace and the pioneering women’s rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft. On St Brigid’s Day Trinity College Dublin installed four new sculptures in its Old Library to honour the scholarship of four trailblazing women.
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