Campaigners hope list of sculptures and busts will help redress imbalance in civic monuments

People are being urged to find female statues in their local areas as part of a campaign to record the sculptures and busts of “real-life women” and redress the gender imbalance in civic monuments.

The campaign group Public Sculpture and Statues Association (PSSA) has so far recorded 100 sculptures in the UK as part of its new public database. Its co-chair Joanna Barnes said the list was not comprehensive and new submissions were being made.

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