Mackenzie Thorpe - The Game of Life Portfolio
Signed Limited Edition Portfolio of 6 Giclee Prints of 695 Copies
The six titles in this portfolio are:
Mam, Can I Have An Ice Cream?
They Won't Play With Me
New Boots At Christmas
He's Coming Home
The Captain
Image size: 12.5" x 14"
Images come in publishers mount, cellophane wrapped with COA presented in a superb boxed set
Released: April 2003
From Mackenzie Thorpe Brochure:
Football is so much more than just a sport. Its impact has been seen across generations of families and has been a thread passed through parents, children and grand-parents.
Throughout the last decade of work of Mackenzie Thorpe has reflected social realism. Through his iconic subject matter, the lives of working people have always featured strongly in his paintings. It is with this in mind that Mackenzie conceived 'The Game of Life', a major exhibition based on football and its impact on all of our lives.
With this portfolio set I have tried to express the reality of playing football for a boy growing up in the 1960's. For many of us during that period, football filled our lives with hope and promise. Through the game of football we would feel excitement and exhilaration racing through our bodies as we charged after the ball for hours and hours on end. Football infiltrated everything; it consumed whole days of our lives. Where I gre up, matches were played on the streets, in the shadows of industry; and looking back they seemed as intense, crucial and filled with passion as great as any I have witnessed since.
As I remember it the whole country was football crazy, it was all I seemed to see and hear on radio and television. Results were splashed across the newspapers, the ups and downs of footballers' lives on everyone's lips. On the streets it was no different. Everyone would be talking about the game, the events and dramas of that day's play; who had gone home crying; whose window had been broken. The whole street would know who fouled who, who scored the goals, who had new boots, who were the winners and who were the losers. And so it would continue, as a new day dawned, a new match would begin, goals to be scored and dreams to be realised - everyone ready for another game on the street.
Mackenzie Thorpe
