Michael vaughan artist biography
Art artist biography...
Michael Vaughan
The name Michael Vaughan may resonate with cricket fans of a certain vintage, on account of him being the batsman and captain of the England cricket squad who at the time (2005) led the team to Ashes victory over the old adversaries, Australia after many years in the cricketing wilderness so to speak.
Whereas to everyone else, let us introduce to you, Michael Vaughan the contemporary artist.
Michael vaughan artist biography
Yes, Vaughan’s back, although now no longer wielding a bat in anger (more as a creative language), but rather a paint-rolled ball which he subsequently bowls at a blank canvas to create his unique compositions. We kid you not.
The technique that the former cricketer has dubbed, ‘artballing’ witnesses a unique applicative process involves the introduction of said symbolical paint-covered balls with the distanced canvas at speed and a pre-defined trajectory at the hand/arm/wrist/bat of Vaughan himself; thus resulting in this very abstract form