Acrylic painting of Sheffield United's Chris Wilder on a betting slip wins second place at awards
Conor Rogers’ acrylic painting of Chris Wilder on a betting slip wins second place
As the World Cup has kicked off it is a perfect time to get swept up in football mania and throw yourself into what football is all about.
The Football Art Prize does just that.
It is an international open call celebrating the links between football and art, run by Touchstones Rochdale and Parker Harris.
This competition invites artists to explore the passion, drama, and unity that football inspires across the world. It is open to anyone aged 18 and over, working in any two-dimensional medium (including painting, drawing, photography, printmaking, and moving image) the prize welcomed diverse and creative interpretations of how football shapes our lives, identities, and communities.
For its second edition, the shortlisted works form part of a touring exhibition, which opened at the Millennium Gallery on Wednesday (June 10) before travelling to the National Football Museum in Manchester
Conor Rogers is an award-winning Sheffield-based artist and graduate of Sheffield Hallam University. His work of Chris Wilder with his head in his hands painted on a betting slip won second place at the awards.
Connor said: “At the heart of my practice is storytelling. Although my works have a familiar subject matter - the landscapes I experience every day - I intend that they go beyond the illusion of what I see to become both object and image at the same time.
“In combining image and object I endeavour to convey the intense reality of life in Britain. The artworks are by-products of deep personal connections made with lived experiences, memories, conversations and explore social commentary, cultural identities, class dynamics, stereotypes, and our sense of self in Britain. On the one hand my works are hyper-ordinary, but at the same time, I hope, extraordinary. The ordinary - the quotidian, or even abject - is turned into something precious, even jewel-like, through hours of time and labour.”
To find out more about the winner and the other short lists entries visit: footballartprize.com/