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trade which includes a floor length apron, with a single hole that was customary for Burton cooper's aprons. The cooper is depicted in a realistic style and
Noszlopy and Waterhouse (2005) describe the careful attention to detail with which the man's clothing and veins on his left hand are rendered. They also complimented the sense of movement in the piece, which they said was best appreciated from the side views. The statue is engraved with the name of the piece and the artist's signature and date ("Butler 77").
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The work was completed in bronze and depicts a single figure, a cooper, at work making a barrel. The cooper is shown in the act of hammering down a temporary shaping truss to hold the wooden staves in place before the permanent iron hoops are fitted. The subject wears the traditional clothing of his
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The figure of the cooper, in part-crouched pose, stands at 1.5 metres (4.9 ft) in height. It stands atop a marble plinth of 1.21 metres (4.0 ft) height, 1.69 metres (5.5 ft) length and 1.63 metres (5.3 ft) width. There is a plaque on each face of the plinth. The plaque on the
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The statue was installed at the St Modwen's Walk entrance to the shopping centre in 1977. It was located in the open air opposite the market square. In refurbishments to the shopping centre undertaken in 1994, the area was roofed over and enclosed, and it was proposed to move the statue within the
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Staffordshire on 9 February 1995. One of the plaques on the side describes the activity being depicted and its association with the brewing industry. The other plaque notes that two time capsules are buried beneath the statue, each
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Society objected to the move, stating that people would be unable to view the statue outside of the centre's open hours. Despite this, the statue was relocated to the middle of the centre in October 1994. In the same year, the statue was gifted to
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was awarded the commission – one of his earliest for public art. Butler visited a cooperage at Bass-Charrington to study the work of two contemporary coopers, and took photographs from which he made a preliminary model.
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were responsible for manufacturing the barrels by hand and refurbishing those that returned to the brewery. Historically the coopers yards in Burton took up as much space as the breweries themselves.
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has a long history, with large parts of the town given over to the industry. In the past, almost all beer brewed would have spent time in a wooden barrel or cask either in the
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front describes the history of the commission and the ownership of the statue. The one on the rear notes the formal opening of the shopping centre on 24 March 1970 by
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