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Artist and designer Gerry Judah’s latest contribution to the Goodwood Festival of Speed celebrated half a century of the Porsche 911. He spoke to Waterfront about the piece


of the annual Goodwood Festival of Speed. Tis year’s piece consisted of Porsche 911s from three different eras, supported at a height of 35 metres by white, steel ‘arrows’ racing towards the sky. Te sculpture, which featured an original 911 from 1963, a 1973 Carrera RS 2.7 and a modern day 911, weighed over 22 tonnes and was four months in the making. Gerry said: “I had to create a sculpture that personifies the energy and excitement not only of these beautiful cars but also the Festival of Speed. Te 911 is a fantastic shape that can’t be deconstructed or


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or years Gerry Judah’s spectacular sculptures, featuring some of the finest achievements in automotive history, have become the centrepiece


embellished, so in this context, the sculpture had to provide the right platform for the car to soar up and shine in the sky. Te concept was that each car is shooting into the sky, supporting one another, racing each other, captured in a perfect moment.” Gerry’s association with Goodwood began in 1997 when he was invited by Lord March, the owner of the Goodwood Estate, to mark Ferrari’s golden anniversary with a commemorative piece. He told Waterfront: “I worked with Lord March when he was a photographer. I used to build sets for him. He asked me to build a triumphal arch for a Ferrari F1 car and it just sort of took off from there.” A number of iconic vehicles have been


incorporated into Gerry’s work in the intervening years, including an interpretation of the Jaguar E Type, the artist’s favourite car. In fact his appreciation of cars begins and ends with the classic models. “I appreciate the beauty of some of the old


cars but I’m no petrol head. All the new cars on the road are pretty ugly. I don’t think you can convince me that there’s a beautiful car on the road which has been designed in the last few years. Everything is so health and safety orientated and so commercially orientated. Everything you do has to have an economic factor to it. As a result you don’t get such beautiful cars which throw caution to the wind in their design.”


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