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Jarvis Cocker, the former front man of huge 90s band Pulp, is heading to Chalkwell on Thursday
(24th) to officially re-open Chalkwell Hall.
The run-down building, right in the middle of Chalkwell Park, was taken over by Metal - an
international arts organisation - and has been transformed into a low carbon space which aims to be
a powerhouse for arts not just in Southend but the whole of the East of England.
Amanda Palmer is one half of The Dresden Dolls. "Leeds United" is off her solo album, Who Killed
Amanda Palmer?. The track isn't directly about Leeds but the pounding on the keys, the blaring
horns, the voice hoarse from shouting/screaming/singing taps into the riot of football crowds. She
explains that the whole idea of turning out to support your team & getting into brawls with each
other struck her as "Roman" and a good subject for her.
A brilliant, innovative and genuinely exciting arts project has hit Southend.
The former water works building on North Road has been completely transformed into a huge space for
emerging artists to work and display their talents.
CoExist Arts run by Emma Emmerton and Amy McKenny is a fairly new project, founded in 2008.
"Las Fútbolistas" Ángel Zárraga (Mexico, 1886-1946)
A friend recommended this painting to me - amazing, given the year it was painted and the commonly
held view that women's football is a recent phenomenon spearheaded by post Title IX generations of
American women. By chance, I happen to be just finishing Barbara Jacobs's incredible portrait of
perhaps the most successful and famous side in English women's football, The Dick, Kerr's Ladies
(see also this recent Guardian story).
(Summary is not available.)
Client: Nike
Art Direction: Henry Tam
2009
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I was asked to create a couple of t-shirt designs themed with football. At first I was supposed to
create two designs both focusing on Manchester United's Wayne Rooney and the T90 Laser shoe.
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In the end however one of the designs wasn't used and I was asked to prepare two more designs with
two other players instead.
Riyas Komu,
Mehrajuddin (2007)
Just wrote my first dispatch on art and football, inspired by Riyas Komu's work: Athletes &
Artists: Riyas Komu's "Mark Him (First Half). " The above is a portrait of Mehrajuddin Wadoo.
Mehrajuddin is an Indian National Team midfielder, and currently plays for East Bengal.
Yolanda Sousa Hammermeir, Lara's Theme (2003)
The above is not a portrait of a footballer, clearly, but rather the West Indian cricket player
Daniel Lara. The painting by Goan artist Yolanda Sousa Hammermeier. I love it, just for the colors
& graphic sensibilities. She's also done fantastic paintings in response to 2002 World Cup matches.
Riyas Komu, Stadium I, 2007
Iraq's victory over Saudi Arabia in the 2007 Asia Cup final is likely to hold up as one the
decade's most significant wins. The team's victory represented a complex distillation of resistance
and anger. The torture and murder of Iraqi athletes is frequently cited in the litany of horrors
suffered by the Iraqi people at the hands of Saddam Hussein (see this 2003
Sports
Illustrated story).
