Mary Wollstonecraft.

[Canary42]

While I applaud the idea of a statue, I would have thought a commemorative statue should be of the person concerned, not some modern sculptor's fantasy.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-54886813

[Mozz71]

Well, it has to be said, she's got a cracking pair!

[Sqad]

He/she looks to have male genitalia unless she has a uterine prolapse.

[Peter Pedant]

yeah - no
I can see a girl at the top

I like Maggi Hambling

[Buenchico]

From your link:
> The Suffolk-based artist said her critics "are not reading the word, the important word, which is on the plinth, quite clearly 'for' Mary Wollstonecraft, it's not 'of' Mary Wollstonecraft." <

The work is celebrating MW's legacy, rather than seeking to be a representation of the woman herself. That makes sense to me but it might be better to refer to the work as a 'sculpture', rather than as a 'statue'.

[Peter Pedant]

no its a girl sqad - I have a qualification called DRCOG

[Sqad]

Ah! PP right, I failed that one.

[New Judge]

I lived in Stoke Newington for 24 years, less than a mile from where the statue has been placed. I know the site where the school was that is mentioned in the report very well because it now houses Stoke Newington Fire Station. But...I never knew there was a school there and I'd never heard (until now) of Mary Wollstonecraft. You live and learn.

[AuntPollyGrey]

Her lady garden needs a good trim !

[237SJ]

At first glance I thought it was Sinead O'Connor.

[Sqad]

237SJ does he play rugby for Ireland?
What is that big swelling hanging down between its thighs?

[237SJ]

Sqad - Sinead O'Connor is a woman :)

[shoota]

A visual excrescence.
It was only £143,000...

[Mozz71]

I agree Polly, a little topiary is needed in the lady bush.