EN-GER-LAND

‘EN-GER-LAND’, the second exhibition at OOF Gallery, is an exploration of English identity through the lens of football fandom. After the Euro 2020 final saw England players subjected to heinous racist abuse following decades of failure on the pitch and violence off it, these artists ask what it really means to be English, to wave the St George's cross, and to support your team.

RCA graduate Beatrice Lettice Boyle paints dramatic, emotional close crops of young English footballers, Conor Rogers makes minutely detailed images on discarded betting slips, Mattia Guarnera-MacCarthy highlights the brutal side of the game, and Evie O'Connor depicts angry mobs on pots and pub ashtrays. At the heart of the show are two George Shaw paintings of lonely goalmouths on a Coventry housing estate.

This is a portrait of England, a footballing nation.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

Beatrice Lettice Boyle / Mattia Guarnera-MacCarthy / Evie O’Connor / Conor Rogers / George Shaw

4 December 21 until 20 February 2022