Fried-chicken artwork exhibited at Tottenham Hotspur stadium

Fried-chicken paintings has gone on show in a gallery at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, paying homage to the “matchday ritual”.

Artist Jack Hirons makes use of charred and crushed bones of fried rooster in his exhibition Fowl Play.

It contains a stained-glass window that doubles as a rooster store menu and a collection of black-and-white work.

The exhibition is the 31-year-old’s debut London solo present and runs till 11 Might.

It’s hosted in OOF, a recent artwork gallery contained in the stadium grounds.

“It is fascinating to current artwork to that viewers,” Mr Hirons instructed BBC London. “It is a great distance from Mayfair, as a recent artwork gallery.”

Mr Hirons, who now lives in Margate, mentioned he began going to Tottenham Hotspur video games when he moved to London as a pupil in 2012.

“The concept got here from going to video games and visiting Chick-King immediately reverse the stadium,” he mentioned.

“It’s positively a part of mine and plenty of different folks’s matchday rituals. There may be at all times an enormous queue. The inside feels actually iconic.”

He started making the work in 2017 with discarded bones from the Tottenham Excessive Street fast-food restaurant, which he blackened and floor right into a darkish pigment.

The outcome was a collection of work about chickens, constituted of rooster bones. The stained glass additionally makes use of the custom-made pigment.

“People have been portray with animal bones for a very long time,” mentioned Mr Hirons.

For him, the exhibition is about combining the fried rooster eaten earlier than a sport with the soccer membership’s cockerel emblem, which options on the staff’s shirts and stadium.

“It is very site-specific,” he mentioned. “Up to date artwork would not must be this closed loop. Why not have it at a soccer match?”

All images copyright: Jack Hirons, Courtesy OOF Gallery