{"id":545997,"date":"2026-04-23T07:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T07:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/545997\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T07:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T07:02:08","slug":"cornish-town-rejects-giant-earth-goddess-sculpture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/545997\/","title":{"rendered":"Cornish town rejects giant Earth Goddess sculpture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Earth Goddess, by the artist Sandy Brown, is said to be the tallest ceramic sculpture in the UK and was part of a specifically funded art project to regenerate St Austell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Made of a series of five huge circles of clay with outstretched arms that are about 20ft (6m) wide, the statue is decorated with bright, bold colours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The artwork has always <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-cornwall-62623953\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">split opinion<\/a> and Richards said &#8220;four or five times as week&#8221; customers would be complaining about it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.staustelltownteam.co.uk\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Town Team&#8217;s purpose, external<\/a> is to give the community a voice and drive &#8220;positive change&#8221;, and Richards, in role role as chair, organised the survey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;For some, the artwork has become a symbol of frustration around spending priorities, regeneration efforts, and the perceived lack of meaningful public consultation in decision-making processes,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said the survey also showed &#8220;a minority of respondents&#8221; see the sculpture as a piece of public art and describe it as &#8220;vibrant, distinctive, and an important talking point&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Earth Goddess, by the artist Sandy Brown, is said to be the tallest ceramic sculpture in the UK&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":545998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-545997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}