Focus on Earth Goddess (sculpture) and discuss the Background.
Earth Goddess forms part of the Austell Projects – Whitegold Art Trail of 18 newly commissioned public art works of ceramic sculptures that reflect the historic china clay industry of St Austell. The trail is intended to form part of the economic regeneration of St Austell. The curator of the Austell Projects, Alex Murdin, said that the purpose of the project was to "encouraging people to think differently about their place and see it differently as well".Brown described her motivation for creating Earth Goddess as wanting the " ... sculpture to make an impact and I wanted her to be female and making an impact". The choice of a female form for the sculpture was due to Brown's perception that there was a lack of large scale female forms in public art and it " ...sort of took me right back actually to my mother – my mother was criticised by her parents for being a girl. They were farmers, they wanted sons. And so my mother was never able to celebrate being female, so I think it's about time that we did."
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