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’GrandSlam’

2008, 13 minutes - by Mike Raggett, MR Production
Making and installation of 4 large tennis players for AELTC Wimbledon
Permanent wire-mesh sculpture for the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club (AELTC), Wimbledon, UK.
The contemporary artwork depicts four tennis players, suspended larger than life-size mesh sculptures with a total height of 7 metres.
The semi-transparent sculpture is located in the Debentures Entrance of the AELTC.
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Many thanks to Mike Raggett, MR Productions, who produced the video.
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The distinction I make between art and design is that a design object is utilitarian and designed to be used whereas an art object is ‘useless’ other than being a work of art - as Pablo Picasso once said “The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
David Begbie / Pablo Picasso