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Some football-themed work here, reflecting my interest in the sport in combination with my artistic work. The work was meant to be quite light-hearted but I actually think it has a lot of resonance, with men in particular, linking past experience with muddy footballs to a messy art experience in a gallery setting. I also like the fact that an actual activity is implicit, in an obvious way, in the finished artwork. 'Out of control' was a piece for the Bankley Open 2006 show and I think it has potential to be expanded to a larger scale, and the soccer ball itself is a wonderful object with its three layers of pattern - the smeared clay, the screen-print on the ball and the stitched 'bucky-ball' pattern.