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The power to take up space: unveiling Zelda D’Aprano, 9 June 2023.
Artist Jennifer Mann selected to create Zelda D’Aprano statue “Chain Reaction”, 31 May 2022.
Victoria to get six new public monuments celebrating women like Zelda D’Aprano, 9 March 2022.
Clare Wright for The Guardian
August 2020.
“Australia doesn’t have much to show for celebrating women’s achievements”
Clare Wright for The Guardian
March 2019.
Kristine Ziwica for The Age
August 2019.
“Only big moves will speed up the end of the unjust gender pay gap”
Kristine Ziwica for Women’s Agenda - ongoing work.
Read.
Australia's first Chinese WWII comfort women statue searches for permanent home
‘MCG needs to catch up’: New cricket Hall of Famer’s push for statue of women’s legend
Discover women’s history in your area: ‘You just have to start looking’
New public artworks commissioned for Victoria on International Women's Day
Creative Resilience: New artwork honours First Nations women’s strength and creativity
Statue of late senator Susan Ryan, the first female federal Labor minister, unveiled in Canberra
A Monument of One’s Own Welcomes City of Sydney resolution to address monument inequality
Sydney to put up more statues of women after its public art labelled a ‘sausage party’
‘Deserve our recognition’: Three political trailblazers immortalised in bronze
A User's Guide to Being a Woman: The Bronze Ceiling
Our campaign to Smash the Bronze Ceiling in The Australian
Read Clare’s intervention into electorate naming practices
Media Release, VIC State Gov: BOOSTING PUBLIC ART OF INSPIRATIONAL WOMEN BY WOMEN
Listen.
Listen to Clare discuss women in history and statue equality on Julia Gillard’s podcast.
Listen to Clare discuss statue equality on Sandra Sully’s podcast.
Listen to Clare discuss a statue for Vida Goldstein on ABC Melbourne with Raf Epstein
Around the world.
Capitol statue collection gets first Black American, replacing Confederate, July 2022
Landmark recognition at Government House (WA) for early female land rights warrior, June 2022
Next stop, Sylvia Plath! Why it is time to redraw the London Underground map, March 2022
London has more statues of animals than of named women, audit finds, October 2021
Why Are There So Few Monuments That Successfully Depict Women?, February 2021
Mary Wollstonecraft finally honoured with statue after 200 years, November 2020
Statue of Ruth Bader Ginsburg to be unveiled in Brooklyn on her birthday, October 2020
New York City’s Central Park will get its First Statue of Women, October 2019
Monumental Women: Breaking the Bronze Ceiling, May 2019
Caroline Criado Perez: How I put a suffragist in Parliament Square, April 2018
Why We Should Put Women on Pedestals - The New York Times, September 2017
Watch.
Watch Clare talk about plans for three new statues in Melbourne on ABC TV News
Watch Clare’s response to the new statue of Mary Wollstonecraft on ABC TV’s The Drum
Watch Clare’s response to the BLM statue debate on ABC TV’s Behind the News