OOF brings a taste of Tottenham High Road to latest art exhibition

Jack Hirons, a talented young Margate-based painter, is bringing the latest ground-breaking exhibition to the OOF Gallery at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium this spring.

All paintings in Hirons’ extraordinary exhibition - Fowl Play - will use pigment from the charred and crushed bones of fried chicken from the much-loved Chick-King restaurant on Tottenham High Road, which has been at the heart of the N17 community for decades.

Hirons, who began the body of work in 2017, blackened the bones himself and ground them into powder to make a deep black pigment for his debut London solo show.

The monochromatic paintings are filled with nods to chickens as sporting and cultural icons. For example, at the heart of the exhibition is a vast stained-glass window that doubles as a chicken shop menu. The result is an exposition that connects football, food and religion, all inspired by the Club’s iconic cockerel emblem.

Fowl Play runs until Saturday 11 May and is free to enter via the entrance for the Tottenham Experience, located on Tottenham High Road.

Opening times as follows:

• Thursday-Saturday: 10am-5pm
• Sundays: 11am-4pm
• Mondays: 10am-5pm
• Tuesdays & Wednesday: Closed

The gallery will also be closed Easter Sunday 31 March and Monday 1 April.

OOF is the world’s only contemporary art gallery in a football stadium, situated in Warmington House, a listed building in the heart of Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Its presence adds to the vibrancy the Club and its new stadium is bringing to London N17, with employment and educational opportunities, a new sport, leisure and entertainment destination and an estimated £344 million into the local economy every year.

For more information on OOF Gallery, visit: https://oofgallery.com/