Below, wall art titled Leg Before Wicket by pop artist Naomi Le Get.
PRESS PLAY ABOVE FOR YOUR LISTENING PLEASURE. THE AUDIO IS A CREAM PARODY ON THE ART OF CRICKET COMMENTARY (WHILE YOU ENJOY VIEWING SOME BEAUT SPORTS ART, BELOW).
Sports are everywhere we turn. Switch on the TV or glance through your smartphone and it’s there. Drive by your local arena and it’s there. Take a trek to your neighbourhood park and it’s there, there and there.
Personally, we like our sport in an artier fashion- and on our walls. That’s why we love design studio, The Art of the Game.
The Art of the Game is an Aussie art studio founded by printmaker Naomi Le Get, whose love of all sports is as evident as her love of pop art.
Joel Selwood.
Be it AFL, cricket, cycling, even diving, Le Get loves to take key sporting events (finals, test wins, Olympic highlights) and screen-print them onto canvas for glorious posterity.
These are then further printed, framed and made available for fellow sports lovers. But mass-printing is something she’d rather avoid.
“Because we’re artists, we’re not interested in selling you lots of the same posters,” insists Le Get on her website theartofthegame.com.au. “That’s why we only do editions of 100 for most of our posters.
“Sure, we could sell more, but we’d [prefer] to design our next poster, not keep printing the same ones over and over again. It also means any poster you buy is pretty special. You’re not going to see it in every café and every living room.”
And, yes, good luck with trying to res up the following images to try printing them out, you sneaky thing!
North Melbourne Kangaroos.West Coast Eagles – Premierships.
Check out more sports artworks by Naomi Le Get at her website theartofthegame.com.au. If any of the artworks above are out of print, you can always see what’s coming into re-print or what can be customised for you. And please tell Naomi that Cream magazine sent you.
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