Football

Sybil Andrews was an integral member of the Grosvenor School, a group of artists influenced by Futurism, which celebrated the dynamism and movement of the machine age.

The Grosvenor School was not just an artistic movement, but a physical art school based in Pimlico in London, which became a leading force in the production and promotion of modern printmaking, particularly the linocut. Linocutting was an artistic medium used in the early part of the 20th century as a revolutionary force, used by artists such as Kandinsky. The method of over-laying colours from multiple blocks created a dynamism and freedom which made the artists of the Grosvenor school key proponents of modernism in the interwar years in Britain.

This work is made by over laying 4 distinct colours - Venetian Red, Crimson, a mixture of Blue and Grey, and Chinese Blue. Andrews has captured the physicality of the game through her angular stylised exaggeration of line and form.