Standing in this Place is a community arts project led by sculptor rachel carter, co-produced with hundreds of women across the Midlands. The project addresses the lack of female representation in statues throughout the UK and will create and place a bronze sculpture of two women in the heart of the Midlands, in Nottingham is Broadmarsh. This beautiful public sculpture will challenge the industrial landscape of our past, symbolising the shared stories of women working in the Midlands cotton mills and factories and enslaved women working in the cotton fields of America and the Caribbean.

The project lab display shares fragments of multifaceted project from the perspective of its contributing makers, enabling today is women to give voice to women of the past. It prompts questions on our shared history, and cover stories and provides an opportunity to learn from the past.

Come along to the National Justice Museum to see some of the work behind the Standing In This Place project, discover how only 5% of British statues represent women and get involved by Making Your Mark, a response to the underrepresentation of women in statues today.