Champions
Leeds United, champions at last — a print built to turn promotion-season catharsis into something ceremonial and frameable.
About the Project
Leeds United, EFL Champions of the 2019/20 season. Also, briefly, the only thing in football that made sense before the world lurched sideways.
The piece was featured in The Square Ball’s Campeón Special, a 228-page celebration of the title-winning season, beautifully put together by Eamonn.
The print is available here. Like almost everything I make, it began life on an iPad and then got dramatically overcommitted.
Lockdown appendix
As a closing coda, I have folded in a short run of Marcelo Bielsa portraits made during lockdown. They sit slightly outside the Campeón piece itself, but they belong to the same emotional weather: suspended football, too much waiting, and drawing El Loco as a reasonable substitute for actually watching him prowl the touchline.
A series of Marcelo Bielsa portraits produced during lockdown, when the Championship was suspended and drawing El Loco felt like a reasonable substitute for watching actual football. Severe acute respiratory syndromes turned out to be surprisingly incompatible with Championship football seasons.
Drawn entirely on iPad, which became the only studio available when the world decided to stay indoors for a while.
A curated image run built to let the print object, surface, and detail breathe on the page.
Open any figure to inspect surface, print detail, and framing more closely without losing the overall sequence.
Sequence note
The closing plates are intended to read like a print-room pass: object, surface, and image held in sequence rather than treated as isolated uploads.
