Mary Lindsay's Hat

Although her father was Australian, Mary Lindsay typified the English eccentric; a woman born into wealth and social position, who feels she has nothing to prove. Certainly she enjoyed her notoriety and the question mark brooch depicted on the wall sculpture was always worn on her hat. This brooch was a gift from her husband to commemorate the birth of their child. As Judith Forrest says, “The casual observer will see the hat and gloves and salt shaker lying in the park as if left behind by an absent minded visitor. They will notice the question mark brooch and it will once again incite curiosity.”