“We have to become warriors”: the fight to save the world’s only women’s sculpture park
Curator Claire Mander is campaigning to save the Artist's Garden in London, the world's only sculpture park dedicated to women's art. She fears the site, located on a former underground station roof, will be converted into a commercial space for VIP events.
Why it matters
The struggle highlights the ongoing tension between preserving cultural spaces dedicated to underrepresented groups and the pressure to monetize urban real estate.
‘It has never occurred to me not to work on a large scale’ … Lakwena Maciver with her installation at the Artist’s Garden at Temple in London in 2021. ‘It has never occurred to me not to work on a large scale’ … Lakwena Maciver with her installation at the Artist’s Garden at Temple in London in 2021. Art and design ‘We have to become warriors’: the fight to save the world’s only women’s sculpture park With most monuments in London made by men, Claire Mander envisaged the Artist’s Garden as a way to redress the balance. Now, she says, it could be turned into a generic space for VIP events and cocktails
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