John Turier 'Street Cricket Boots' Printmaking For collectors of pop art

For collectors of pop art and connoisseurs of the fast life

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the painting’s monumental scale renders the brooding figure unavoidable

30 November 2002 - 9 February 2003

as well as internationally at New York’s Museum of Modern Art

John Turier 'Street Cricket Boots' Printmaking For collectors of pop artIn Street Cricket Boots, Newcastle based artist John Turier playfully reimagines a worn out relic of suburban sport. Through his characteristically tactile assemblage approach and weathered, muted palette, he transforms humble materialsdiscarded cardboard, staples, and found fragmentsinto a vivid, nostalgic presence laced with quiet irony. The title knowingly evokes the gritty, unpolished arena of backyard cricket, drawing a line between the