Selected works from SPRING 2024 Residency at OOF Gallery
Mob Football, 2024. This is an extract of the full film.
I travelled to Atherstone to witness the ancestor of modern football.
The Atherstone Game has been played in a village in the Midlands (UK) every pancake day for 100s of years. The winner is the one holding the giant leather ball (which is hidden beneath the mob) when the final whistle sounds. A Mob Film Directed by Louise Ashcroft in collaboration with Serena Mirambeau, Juliette Temple, Saul Sennen, Roy Parker, and Jack Lewin, who came along for the journey and filmed as discordantly as the mob. This footage is from Jack's drone.
I travelled to Atherstone to witness the ancestor of modern football.
The Atherstone Game has been played in a village in the Midlands (UK) every pancake day for 100s of years. The winner is the one holding the giant leather ball (which is hidden beneath the mob) when the final whistle sounds. A Mob Film Directed by Louise Ashcroft in collaboration with Serena Mirambeau, Juliette Temple, Saul Sennen, Roy Parker, and Jack Lewin, who came along for the journey and filmed as discordantly as the mob. This footage is from Jack's drone.
Nil Nil, 2024. (Listen above, takes 7 seconds to start)
An imaginary goalless version of the BBC Radio football results, listing Women's and queer/trans teams from 1900-2024. An audio monument to the FA women’s football ban 1921-1970 which marginalised the thriving sport of Women's football, effectively making the teams and their goals invisible for 50+ years.
This is a collaboration with the iconic BBC radio presenter Charlotte Green. Charlotte has been massive Spurs fan all her life; when she was 6 years old she wanted to be a pro footballer. School wouldn’t let girls play, so instead she became the voice of the shipping forecast and a newsreader and was the first woman to read the classified football results (she read them live for ten years).
An imaginary goalless version of the BBC Radio football results, listing Women's and queer/trans teams from 1900-2024. An audio monument to the FA women’s football ban 1921-1970 which marginalised the thriving sport of Women's football, effectively making the teams and their goals invisible for 50+ years.
This is a collaboration with the iconic BBC radio presenter Charlotte Green. Charlotte has been massive Spurs fan all her life; when she was 6 years old she wanted to be a pro footballer. School wouldn’t let girls play, so instead she became the voice of the shipping forecast and a newsreader and was the first woman to read the classified football results (she read them live for ten years).
David Beckham's Part Time Job, 2024. AI Video sketch about football's gender pay gap - reversing the roles.
Transfer Window, 2024.
A disruptive print work.
Print out women's football faces to stick over the sports pages of any newspaper lacking women's sport... here
A disruptive print work.
Print out women's football faces to stick over the sports pages of any newspaper lacking women's sport... here
Phulkari Hands: Hands that Stitch Phulkari Stitch Footballs, 2024 (listen below)
After learning that 70% of hand stitched footballs are made in Sialkot, Pakistan, I wondered what the English football song 'it's coming home' would sound like in Punjabi.
This track was made with Tottenham-born Singer Amrit Kaur, who adapts popular British football chants to Punjabi folk song, complicating the idea of 'home' and 'away' with phrases like 'ere we go', 'glory, glory', and 'it's coming home', with a nod to the colonial roots of British sports, Indian partition, and the global sports industry. I hope the track also helps us ask ourselves 'who made my football' and what's it made out of, so sports consumerism can be a bit less passive. The title 'Phulkari Hands' refers to traditional Punjabi embroidery, linking this craft to the skilful work of making footballs (they take 3 hours to make). The hands that make footballs are invisible Players in the sport, Amrit and I wanted to sing a chant for the football makers in Sialkot's 1000+ factories. Imporvised in a day, recorded at OOF Gallery in the Spurs football stadium. Here it is:
After learning that 70% of hand stitched footballs are made in Sialkot, Pakistan, I wondered what the English football song 'it's coming home' would sound like in Punjabi.
This track was made with Tottenham-born Singer Amrit Kaur, who adapts popular British football chants to Punjabi folk song, complicating the idea of 'home' and 'away' with phrases like 'ere we go', 'glory, glory', and 'it's coming home', with a nod to the colonial roots of British sports, Indian partition, and the global sports industry. I hope the track also helps us ask ourselves 'who made my football' and what's it made out of, so sports consumerism can be a bit less passive. The title 'Phulkari Hands' refers to traditional Punjabi embroidery, linking this craft to the skilful work of making footballs (they take 3 hours to make). The hands that make footballs are invisible Players in the sport, Amrit and I wanted to sing a chant for the football makers in Sialkot's 1000+ factories. Imporvised in a day, recorded at OOF Gallery in the Spurs football stadium. Here it is:
Queer Keepie Uppies, 2024.
Trans and Non Binary Footballer Players can't play professionally because professional sport is regulated in such a binary gendered way. This is called discrimination. Trans people belong in sport. I am making a video of trans and NB players doing keepie uppies. If you want to take part, drop me an email [email protected]
Trans and Non Binary Footballer Players can't play professionally because professional sport is regulated in such a binary gendered way. This is called discrimination. Trans people belong in sport. I am making a video of trans and NB players doing keepie uppies. If you want to take part, drop me an email [email protected]