Michael Vaughan
Michael Vaughan will be remembered for many things: the silky cover drive, the blistering swivel pull, 633 runs (including 3 massive hundreds) in Australia in 2002/3 and, of course, the brilliant captaincy that led England to the great Ashes triumph of 2005.
He will also go down in history as the first cricketer - indeed the first sportsman - to have an artist profile on Spoonfed. The reason is not that his batting alone makes him worthy of the term 'artist' (although of course it does), nor is it simply to indulge the Spoonfed Arts Editor's tragic undying obsession with cricket.
No, the reason is more prosaic: in 2009 Michael Vaughan turned his attention to the world of contemporary art. Apparently inspired by trips round Shoreditch galleries with Ashley Giles (is there no end to that man's talents?) Vaughan has been hitting paint-covered cricket balls at canvasses to produce art. Martina Navratilova pioneered the idea using tennis balls and now Vaughan follows suit.
It's not exactly the finest work you'll ever see but, for the cricket-obsessed, there are much worse bits of memorabilia out there. Our Arts Editor plans to buy every piece...
He will also go down in history as the first cricketer - indeed the first sportsman - to have an artist profile on Spoonfed. The reason is not that his batting alone makes him worthy of the term 'artist' (although of course it does), nor is it simply to indulge the Spoonfed Arts Editor's tragic undying obsession with cricket.
No, the reason is more prosaic: in 2009 Michael Vaughan turned his attention to the world of contemporary art. Apparently inspired by trips round Shoreditch galleries with Ashley Giles (is there no end to that man's talents?) Vaughan has been hitting paint-covered cricket balls at canvasses to produce art. Martina Navratilova pioneered the idea using tennis balls and now Vaughan follows suit.
It's not exactly the finest work you'll ever see but, for the cricket-obsessed, there are much worse bits of memorabilia out there. Our Arts Editor plans to buy every piece...
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universe
Tuesday, 05 April
As a writer, I'm more than a little tempted to start covering pens in paint and throwing *them* at canvases.
Or is that too 19th century?
I'm not throwing my iPad at anything... that peripheral was bloody expensive.
Or is that too 19th century?
I'm not throwing my iPad at anything... that peripheral was bloody expensive.
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