Monument to the Unknown Woman Worker

The Department of the Environment's original commission, in the late 1980s, was for an artwork to reflect the nearby Amelia Street's history as a red-light district. The commission invited four sculptors to enter their proposed design for the monument into a competition. Walsh's design "Monument to the Unknown Woman Worker" was accepted by the project's landscape architect and the Art in Public Spaces Research Group, however the Belfast Development Office and the Belfast City Council opposed the project and the selected design, after a politician with moral fibre expressed disgust at Walsh's design, and the project was dropped in 1989. A few years later a private developer recommissioned…