Louise Walsh

[2] Walsh is well-known for her work of life-size energetic figures, which can attracting controversy as they challenge conventional depictions of women.

[4] In 2006 she was commissioned by the Department for Social Development to create a sculpture to commemorate the 300-year history of women factory workers in Derry.

[6] In the late 1980s, her design for a public artwork in Belfast to commemorate women's work was accepted by the project's selection panel.

This theme is articulated by the use of objects and utensils symbolic of women's work, such as household items, telephones, shopping baskets and cash registers, which are embedded in the fabric of the figures.

A private developer later recommissioned the work, titled Monument to the Unknown Woman Worker, and it was erected in 1992.