Lady Augusta Gregory

One of two maquettes made for the TCD Art Collections tender for commissioning new busts of female scholars for the Long Room.

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Maquette for Trinity College Dublin Art Collections Long Room Bust Competition.

This small maquette of Lady Augusta Gregory (1852-1932) was part of my tender for Long Room of the Old Library female scholar bust competition, Trinity College Dublin.

I was inspired to make a maquette of Lady Gregory as I grew up in a theatrical environment with a mother who wrote and performed all her life, and a great grandmother born in Ireland. The meeting of these two worlds felt very familiar to me and I could appreciate the importance of this woman’s contribution to Irish cultural nationalism.

In the end I was commissioned -much to my excitement- to make a bust of Ada Lovelace, not Lady Gregory.

Year sculpted: 2022.

Dimensions (H x W): 39cm x 16cm. Actual size may vary, especially depending on the base.