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Dianne
Snowden

Dr Dianne Snowden was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2017 for significant service to the community as a historian and genealogical researcher, to higher education, and to heritage groups. She is the author of several publications. She is currently researching free children who arrived with convict parents, and children in the orphan schools.

The Arts

Shaping history: Rowan Gillespie’s statues

by Dianne Snowden

29 Jul 2021

Internationally renowned Irish sculptor Rowan Gillespie is one the great figurative sculptors in Irish art and has been described as “one of the most eloquent contemporary masters of Irish sculpture”. Gillespie is noted for his Famine sculptures on Custom House Quay, Dublin (1997), the first in a famine trilogy that continues with Migrants on Éireann Quay, Ireland Park, Toronto (2007), and Footsteps towards Freedom, the female convict statues on Hobart’s waterfront (2017).