Rachel Carter’s public sculpture Standing in This Place pays tribute to the women associated with Nottingham’s 19th-century textile industry.
The bronze shows an enslaved Black cotton worker and a white mill worker clasping hands in greeting. Commissioned by the National Justice Museum, the statue came out of a three-year collaboration between the artist and a community project run by the charity Bright Ideas Nottingham. More than 400 women took part in the project.
Standing in This Place, now on permanent display in the Green Heart space in Nottingham, recognises the thousands of women who contributed to the textile industry, from the enslaved workers who farmed cotton in America and the Caribbean, to the mill workers who manufactured lace and other goods in the city and wider East Midlands area.
More information
Title of artwork, date
Standing in This Place, 2024
Date supported
2023
Medium and material
Bronze
Dimensions
165.5 x 195.1 x 136.8 cm
Grant
100,000
Total cost
237,600
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