Alison Cockburn quote gets put up in lights.

Projected on the side of 175 Rose Street until the 18th March there will be a quote from statue candidate Alison Cockburn as part of the enLIGHTen art project.

The projections are turned on from 6pm til midnight, but there's also a tour tomorrow, Wednesday 14th March at 7pm meeting at the George Street side of St. Andrew's Square, details here - enLIGHTen tour

The Living Statues of 2012

Jenny Geddes: Where's My Statue?

Some warm up music for tomorrow :D

It's about US women's suffrage, but awesome nonetheless.

Living Statues- City Chambers 11th March 2012, at noon!

A small band of us will be dressing up as women who deserve statues tomorrow. We will start outside the city chambers and aim to raise awareness of the imbalance of genders in statues, and lack of awareness of Scottish women's history in general. Come along and lend moral support, dress up if you feel brave, the more the merrier :)

Phoebe Anna Traquair

Phoebe Anna Traquair was an influential artist in the Arts and Crafts movement. Considered to be the first important professional female artist in Scotland, she painted astonishingly beautiful murals in churches, here's an example of her work in the Mansfield Traquair Centre in Edinburgh- 

This particular mural has been described as the "Sistine Chapel" of Edinburgh.


Further information on Traquair can be found on the National Library of Scotland website.

Alison Cockburn

Alison Cockburn/Rutherford is best known for her poem "The Flowers of the Forest", her salons were a social hub for many Scottish Enlightenment thinkers including: Hume, Burns and Walter Scott.

Jenny Geddes

Jenny Geddes was a feisty woman who is reputed to have started a riot at St. Giles when the Anglican Book of Common Prayer was first read by throwing a stool at the minister! Jenny was reported to have exclaimed, "De'il gie you colic, the wame o’ ye, fause thief; daur ye say Mass in my lug?"(Devil cause you colic in your stomach, false thief: dare you say the Mass in my ear?).