The Ōwairaka, Statue of a Cloaked Woman by Christine Hellyar is a suffrage memorial to commemorate the women of Mount Albert.

[3] The women of Mount Albert fundraised for eighteen months between 1994 and 1995 in order to raise enough money to pay Christine Hellyar to create the sculpture.

[4] In 1995, Hellyar cast the statue on-site at Alice Wylie Reserve so that the public could witness the sculpture's inception.

[4] Hellyar informed onlookers that the sculpture was influenced by Wairaka, from whom Ōwairaka was named, Ngāti Awa's ancestress.

[7] Because there was no physical path built to reach the sculpture, the only way to get close to it was through a garden, making it largely invisible and relatively inaccessible to get to when walking through the Reserve.

[1] When the sculpture was subsequently remade, Hellyar collaborated with sculptor Richard Mathieson, and the new piece was unveiled a week before Suffrage Day in September 2024.