TIM VYNER

In June 2006 Tim Vyner travelled to Ghana to follow the ‘Black Stars’ progress through the World Cup.
      
“I arrived with a bag of Puma footballs and my watercolours and recorded the atmosphere and build up around the games. I watched England play Paraguay in an open-air cinema and I celebrated on the streets of Accra, as Ghana became the only African nation to qualify for the knockout stages to earn a game against Brazil.
     
The whole nation loves football. Everywhere people gathered around televisions to watch all the games, and on every bare patch of ground kids played out the best goals.”
    
Having recorded England’s progress through the last world cup in Japan and Korea, Vyner wanted to develop his reportage story of the beautiful game. There are no stadiums or fan festivals in this exhibition, but a celebration of football played out on the streets of Ghana in a small corner of a continent that will host the world cup for the first time in 2010.
    
Other works on show include examples of Tim Vyner’s growing collection of football imagery and street life.