{"id":245048,"date":"2023-05-26T13:45:57","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T12:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thesquareball.net\/?p=245048"},"modified":"2023-05-26T14:11:01","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T13:11:01","slug":"bedsheets-pins-alistair-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thesquareball.net\/leeds-united\/bedsheets-pins-alistair-woods\/","title":{"rendered":"Bedsheets & pins: Alistair Woods"},"content":{"rendered":"
Alistair Woods is an artist living and working in Manchester, but in 2017 ‘A Portrait of Jack Charlton’ was a bit of a giveaway that his allegiances are with the light side of the Pennines. Newer work at Castlefield Gallery in Manchester featured a player whose legend could have been enhanced if he’d taken up Bill Fotherby’s offer and joined Leeds in 1988.<\/p>\n
“Diego Maradona’s in my recent work due to a recent trip to Naples,” Alistair told me over email. “The amount of tributes to him around the city was almost sacred, and felt the same as seeing all the, what I\u2019ve seen described as \u2018votive aedicula\u2019 shrines all over the place.<\/p>\n
“Using Maradona is not only being able to incorporate football into my work, to an extent a bit of humour too (let\u2019s face it, the bust is pretty ridiculous) but also an attempt to tap into that energy of devotion that comes from football fans and how it compares slightly to paintings of the Virgin Mary from the 15th century, for example.<\/p>\n