Kathleen Beauchamp was born in Wellington in 1888 and had a brilliant yet brief career (she died at 34 from tuberculosis) writing short stories and journal entries under the pseudonym Katherine Mansfield. Many of her works mirrored her conflicts in New Zealand, troubled romances plus her empathy for the repressed Māori people. In 2013, sculptor Virginia King created this tribute titled, “Woman of Words.” The artist used a laser to cut Kathleen Mansfield’s quotes into the stainless steel female figure.
