Last week, a new sculpture was unveiled in Leeds’ cultural quarter. ‘Ribbons’, by the brilliant local artist Pippa Hale, is made of steel ribbons, carrying the names of almost 400 women who have contributed to our city.
It includes musicians like Alice Nutter of the band Chumbawamba, the Oscar-nominated composer Angela Morley and Corinne Bailey-Rae. Cultural figures like the pioneering museum creator Violet Mary Crowther, Jane Earnshaw who ran the I Love West Leeds Festival, and Lucy Moore, project curator of Leeds Museums and Galleries. And the social reformer and suffragist, Isabella Ford, former Olympic boxer, Nicola Adams and Leeds West Indian Carnival founder, Gertrude Paul.
I strongly believe that we should do what we can to celebrate the contribution of women, to all our communities, our region, and our country. It is one of the drivers behind my politics. Partly it is about fairness and making sure that women who too often do important work without recognition are not overlooked.
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