Perhaps the most time consuming piece’s thus far has been produced for the Nike Art Of Football campaign by Dominic Wilcox, with creativity and outcome on form I am personally blown away. Having already seen a number of pieces and surely more will surface this be one of the highlights on the scene this year.
This is what the artist had to say about the three pieces entitled Cave, Top Corner and Blocks…
’I created ‘Cave’ as a container for your most special football shoes. Instead of just dumpng your prized footwear in the bottom of your wardrobe (or wherever), place them in this bespoke shoe home made from model football players. Inspiration for Cave came from a number of sources, I wanted to create a mini stadium (like the Birds Nest stadium in China) with the shoes at the centre and the light passing through the gaps. I’ve always loved football and included an element from my local area with a map of bitter rivals Sunderland and Newcastle United etched on each of the shoe plinths inside Cave.’
’Taking the silhouette of a footballer kicking a ball I recreated the form by glueing together hundreds of plastic footballers.’
’Gluing the footballers was certainly a challenge. It became almost a meditative process. At one point I was in ‘the zone’ to the point that a super glue tube got stuck to the side of my finger yet instead of spending time removing it I picked up another tube and continued on.
Luckily I had much help from assistants including Mim and Roger who each have their own ‘favourite’ glue stories also.’
Thanks to Josh Spear for the heads up.
