A study has revealed that Redcar and Cleveland and Tyne and Wear have publicly-owned sculpture collections that are made entirely by male sculptors.
Art Shipping company, PACK & SEND analysed around 5,000 publicly-owned sculptures in the UK to find where in the country gives the biggest platform to female sculptors.
The study revealed that Redcar and Cleveland, Tyne and Wear and Fife had no female artists at all of sculptures in the area.
Redcar and Cleveland has 22 sculptures and Tyne and Wear has 14 - all made by male sculptors.
At the other end of the scale Dorset has 69 per cent of its sculptures made by female sculptors and West Yorkshire has 53 per cent made by female sculptors.
For the full study go to: www.packsend.co.uk/whether-subject-or-artist-uk-publicly-owned-statues-are-very-much-a-mans-world/
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