Reaching Out is an addition to The Line, a free sculpture trail running between The O2 in North Greenwich and Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford. There are very few other permanent statues of Black women in the UK — among them are The Bronze Woman monument in Stockwell and a depiction of Mary Seacole at St Thomas' Hospital.
Reaching Out is Price’s first individual full figure representation of a woman, and one of very few public sculptures of a black woman in the UK (the first being a short distance from where Price grew up). This new work, depicting a young woman standing holding a mobile phone in both hands, continues Price’s theme of balancing experiences of isolation and connectedness, whilst acknowledging the different ways in which technology mediates our lives.
