ARSENAL FC THE EMIRATES STADIUM CANVAS WALL ART (30X18)

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Perhaps the most sensitive aspect of the whole consultation process was the question of whether or not to use current players. In the end, it was decided that those still playing were still writing their stories at the club and it was premature to include them. The project has brought together our supporters, community, legends and staff as one. It's a real celebration of the Arsenal community, designed for and by the Arsenal family.” This has been a fantastic project enabled by so many of the Arsenal family here in Islington and across the world," said our CEO, Vinai Venkatesham. "We genuinely couldn’t have brought this project to life without everyone working together and giving their passion and dedication to this work. It did not take the club long to establish that a touch-up or exact replacement was not what they wanted. So, what should they do with a blank canvas that is almost the size of the pitch?

I express my heartfelt gratitude to everyone who has been involved and made this unique piece of work possible. We started with a blank canvas with the hope of capturing and expressing our rich history, our values of community and progress and reflect what Arsenal stands for in 2023 and beyond. So we came away wanting to replace them with something completely new. It is going to transform what the stadium looks like. That is what stimulated the project. We knew it would be high profile and there would be so many different opinions, so we effectively started running the most involved consultation we’ve ever run. There were more than 100 ex-players, supporters, people from the community, ex-players’ families and Arsenal staff involved. They were all talking about what Arsenal meant to them.” A line had to be drawn somewhere. What if Arteta and his team win something in the not-too-distant future? Could they be added? The answer is not now. This art has been curated as an expression of the club more generally, not what it might be or do in time to come. Who knows what Arsenal will look like when these images are weathered and another refurbishment is commissioned in a decade or so?