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Transfer Window, 2024.
Print the image out on transparent adhesive a4 (or normal a4 and cut and Pritt stick them on).
Stick the women's footballers faces over the back pages of any newspapers lacking content on women's sport.
The sports pages of newspapers often only feature men. I sourced the game faces from one copy of the trailblazing 'Women's Football News', a monthly publication by The Mirror newspaper.
When Women's football was banned from using the FA's grounds and resources in 1921 (until 1970) it was marginalised - going from 50,000 stadiums to invisibility. The language around the ban was medicalised - as though it were harmful to women. Let's make Women's football really infectious, let it bloom across the back pages.
Made as part of my Spring 2024 residency at OOF Gallery. Supported by Spurs.
Print the image out on transparent adhesive a4 (or normal a4 and cut and Pritt stick them on).
Stick the women's footballers faces over the back pages of any newspapers lacking content on women's sport.
The sports pages of newspapers often only feature men. I sourced the game faces from one copy of the trailblazing 'Women's Football News', a monthly publication by The Mirror newspaper.
When Women's football was banned from using the FA's grounds and resources in 1921 (until 1970) it was marginalised - going from 50,000 stadiums to invisibility. The language around the ban was medicalised - as though it were harmful to women. Let's make Women's football really infectious, let it bloom across the back pages.
Made as part of my Spring 2024 residency at OOF Gallery. Supported by Spurs.
'Last Chance', 2023. Leaf intervention on a North London bus stop lightbox for Black Friday weekend
'Vegetable', 2002-23 (ongoing).
Buy a vegetable or fruit, which you don't know the name of, from a market stall specialising in imported vegetables.
Smuggle it into a high street supermarket which does not sell this item and try to buy it along with the rest of your shopping.
Watch the supermarket system fall apart as the cashiers and supervisors try to work out what it is, how it got there and how to scan it through the till. If they ask you about it, shrug or begin a philosophical discussion about the taxonomy of vegetables. Sainsbury's staff tend to make their own decision (scanning it through as a marrow or apple), Tesco staff might not let you buy it at all, and Marks and Spencers staff take it right to the top - you may get to meet the store manager.
Buy a vegetable or fruit, which you don't know the name of, from a market stall specialising in imported vegetables.
Smuggle it into a high street supermarket which does not sell this item and try to buy it along with the rest of your shopping.
Watch the supermarket system fall apart as the cashiers and supervisors try to work out what it is, how it got there and how to scan it through the till. If they ask you about it, shrug or begin a philosophical discussion about the taxonomy of vegetables. Sainsbury's staff tend to make their own decision (scanning it through as a marrow or apple), Tesco staff might not let you buy it at all, and Marks and Spencers staff take it right to the top - you may get to meet the store manager.
