Religious Works
In 1993, Mario Conti, then Bishop of Aberdeen, commissioned Davidson to create a small figure of St Margaret of Scotland to celebrate the 900th anniversary of the saint. Margaret had married King Malcolm III in the 11th century and the sculpture represents Margaret holding an open book and gently leading a small girl by the hand.
In 2003, during an audience with Pope John Paul II, Tony Blair, then UK Prime Minister, presented him with one of the 500 statues of St Margaret that Anne Davidson had designed. Other important religious commissions she created were:
- Relief sculptures in St Mary's R.C. Cathedral, Aberdeen
- External reliefs for the Church of St Paschal Baylon, Liverpool
- The Madonna and Child and St Columba statues in the St Columba Church complex, Aberdeen.
- St Paul the Apostle Church, Glasgow (her final large commission, completed in July 2008)
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