Jack Hirons, a young Margate-based painter, is bringing the latest exhibition to the OOF Gallery at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium this spring.
All paintings in Hirons’ extraordinary exhibition - Fowl Play - will use pigment from the charred and crushed bones of fried chicken from the much-loved Chick-King restaurant on Tottenham High Road, which has been at the heart of the N17 community for decades.
Hirons, who began the body of work in 2017, blackened the bones himself and ground them into powder to make a deep black pigment for his debut London solo show.
The monochromatic paintings are filled with nods to chickens as sporting and cultural icons. For example, at the heart of the exhibition is a vast stained-glass window that doubles as a chicken shop menu. The result is an exposition that connects football, food and religion, all inspired by the Club’s iconic cockerel emblem.
OOF is the world’s only contemporary art gallery in a football stadium, situated in Warmington House, a listed building in the heart of Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
Main Image :A portrait of Heung-Min Son and At the Chick King counter' - part of 'Fowl Play' by Jack Hirons - copyright the artist - courtesy OOF Gallery
Anna Melnykova, "Palace of Labor (palats praci), architector I. Pretro, 1916", shot with analog Canon camera, 35 mm Fuji film in March 2022.
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