Who sculpted the 2022 Westminster statue of Ada Lovelace?

Etienne and Mary Millner sculpted the 2022 Westminster statue of Ada Lovelace. The bronze-and-Portland-stone work was unveiled on International Women’s Day, 8 March 2022, at the Millbank Quarter near Horseferry Road.

The sculpture was commissioned as part of the redevelopment of the former Ergon House site. It is based on a portrait of Lovelace by Margaret Sarah Carpenter and incorporates imagery associated with punched cards, linking the monument to Lovelace’s work on Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine.

The Millners are a husband-and-wife artistic team known for figurative and monumental portrait sculpture. The statue is sometimes described simply as the “Ada Lovelace statue in Westminster,” which can cause confusion with other Lovelace busts and commemorative works, including a later bust unveiled at Trinity College Dublin.

Lovelace was not a sculptor herself: she was a mathematician and writer whose 1843 notes on the Analytical Engine included an algorithm often regarded as the first published computer program.