page_title: Margriet Windhausen
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: Margriet Windhausen / Works
caption_attribution_description: About the Memorial The Memorial, the work of sculptor Margriet Windhausen, comprises a 3.3m by 2.1m bronze bas-relief supported by a 5m pebbled wall. The Memorial stands in a landscaped area beside the Avon River on Oxford Terrace known as the Kate Sheppard National Memorial Reserve. It is the only National Memorial in Christchurch and is the only New Zealand monument depicting the fight for women’s suffrage. The central panel depicts life size figures of Kate Sheppard and other leaders of the suffrage movement. Smaller panels depict women of the time in typical everyday settings. Bronze panels record a written history of Kate Sheppard and the suffrage movement. A time capsule enclosed in the wall contains a record of the donors and material relevant to women’s lives in 1993. The six women are Kate Sheppard (1847 – 1934), Meri Te Tai Mangakāhia (1868 – 1920), Amey Daldy (1829 – 1920), Ada Wells (1863 – 1933), Harriet Morison (1862 – 1925), and Helen Nicol (1854 – 1932).
context_page_description: Margriet Windhausen is a Dutch-born sculptor and painter.
context_section_description: In the early 1980s she made a number of bronze portraits. She then received a number of commissions for monumental works, such as a bronze statue of the New Zealand boxer Bob Fitzsimmons, which was commissioned by New Zealand property magnate and boxing fan Sir Robert Jones, and which is located in a public square in Timaru. Windhausen also made a two-metre high work of the sailing ships of Abel Tasman. This work was commissioned by the Netherlands-New Zealand Federation, and unveiled in Wellington on March 17, 1992 by Queen Beatrix. For the centenary of women's suffrage in New Zealand, she made the Kate Sheppard National Memorial, a bronze relief measuring five by over two metres. This work was unveiled on 19 September 1993.
  Windhausen's work also includes a statue of Captain John Hamilton which was installed in Hamilton's Civic Square. In 2018, the statue was vandalised by activist Taitimu Maipi. Maipi used a hammer and red paint to damage the statue, and said that it did not make sense to celebrate a man who murdered the ancestors of local Māori. Windhausen said that "history is controversial and that's why I want to say I respect [Taitimu Maipi's] feelings for Captain Hamilton". Windhausen said her sculpture, to her, only went as far as illustrating where the name of the city came from. Further protests against the statue followed in 2020, including a march. The statue was removed from the square in June 2020 by Hamilton City Council.
  Other works by Windhausen include a sculpture of athlete Jack Lovelock for Timaru Boys' High School and The Face of Peace, installed at Caroline Bay.
caption: Close up of the Kate Sheppard National Memorial
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