British artist Rose Wylie and Arsenal and the England national defender Lotte Wubben-Moy team up in a creative relay between the football pitch and the studio, transforming everyday snapshots into vibrant paintings and drawings. What begins as an image diary – Wubben-Moy’s behind-the-scenes photos from training, match days and daily life – becomes, in Wylie’s hands, a series of sharp, playful reinterpretations.

Known for her distinctive visual language that reimagines pop culture and daily life, Wylie focuses on details others might miss – a pair of legs in mid-stride, a contorted pose or the thoughts that go behind planning each move on the pitch. The result gives an insight into a footballer’s daily life through the eyes of a painter. In this unique exchange, Wubben-Moy is both the subject of the paintings and the co-author. Both intimate and revealing, their collaboration opens up the artistic process to new forms of storytelling.

This isn’t the first time Wylie has turned her attention to women’s football. Alongside her many drawings of footballers, taken from Match of The Day or newspaper cuttings, including Thierry Henry, Peter Crouch and Wayne Rooney. In 2019 she drew Woman Footballer, a coloured pencil and collage on paper showing a woman footballer in motion. Woman Footballer can be seen in even larger form as a series of billboards on Water Street during Football City, Art United as a dedication to the on-going support and visibility of women’s football.