Wedgwoods Head Sculpture - Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK.
N 53° 01.590 W 002° 11.632
30U E 554066 N 5875522
A giant sculpture of potter Josiah Wedgwoods head, located on Festival Way at the Festival Retail Park in Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent.
Waymark Code: WMZYNN
Location: West Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 01/24/2019
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The giant head of Josiah Wedgwood - 'CAPO' was created by Vincent Woropay in 1986 for the National Garden Festival in Etruria, Stoke-on-Trent. The area has now been developed as the Festival Retail Park.
The 10ft high, red brick sculpture of Wedgwood's face once took pride of place at the Stoke-on-Trent Garden Festival. In Dec 2009 (after 23 years in storage) the statue was moved to near the site of Josiah Wedgwood's home, Etruria Hall, now part of a hotel, and it is also close to where he built his Etruria factory in 1769.
"This is a colossal head of Josiah Wedgewood carved out of extra-large bricks, but, like a slave by Michelangelo, never quite emerging from the material.
It makes one feel that Wedgewood must still be something of an edifice in the potteries, and then leads one to think about clay - how one bit ends up in the Victoria and Albert Musem and another in a civic wall."
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Vincent Woropay was born of Polish parents in London, moving with his family to Los Angeles in 1964. He returned to London to complete his schooling at the Salesian College, Battersea, before studying sculpture at Brighton Polytechnic (1974-1977) and the Slade School of Fine Art, London (1977-1979). (
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Josiah Wedgwood (12 July 1730 – 3 January 1795) was an English potter and entrepreneur who founded the Wedgwood company. (
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