Sophie Ryder has been sculpting hares (not rabbits!) throughout her career, but the Lady-Hare, a stylised hare's head on a human body apparently modelled on Ryder's own, developed in 1996. It represents a feminine counterpart of the Classical Minotaur, itself emphasised as a symbol of masculinity by Picasso. The association of the hare with fertility and femininity is well-established in Celtic mythology, but even purely as a visual device, the hybrid form just works – even the ears vaguely…