All paint pigment used in Jack Hirons’ debut show comes from Ckick-King on Tottenham High Road

The debut show from a “fried chicken” artist is set to launch in Tottenham this month.

Jack Hirons’ uses the unusual medium of paint pigment created from the charred and crushed bones of fried chicken, which is made into a powder.

The artist sources this material from Chick-King on Tottenham High Road.

Originally from Margate, Jack’s black and white paintings are “filled with nods to chicken as sporting and cultural icon as matchday ritual, as political history, and – obviously – as greasy sustenance.”

His exhibition Fowl Play will be held at OOF, a football-themed gallery near Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

The exhibition’s focal point will be a stained glass window that doubles as a chicken shop menu.

Said to be the meeting point of food, football and religion, Jack’s work shows: “Just like Catholics eating the body of Christ at Sunday Mass, football supporters make their pre-match pilgrimage to Chick-King to feast on wings and fried thighs.”

Jack commented: “While the project might start to look like an unhealthy obsession with chicken, its recurring themes are universal; politics, power, religion and sexuality all relate to our own existence. Chicken even shapes our language because to call someone a chicken, or a chick, or a cock mean very different things.”

Fowl Play will run from 22nd March to 11th May.

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