‘28 Years Later’ brings together two stadiums connected by a single fixture and the passing of time. The first is the venue for Scotland vs Brazil at the 1998 World Cup, the same year I began art school. The second is the stadium that will host the same fixture at the 2026 World Cup, twenty-eight years later.
Stadiums have been a recurring subject in my practice since its beginnings in 1998. They function as sites of collective memory, anticipation, and ritual, but also as structures that endure while the moments they contain quickly pass. By placing these two stadiums together, the painting reflects on the passage of time in parallel ways: the elapsed years between the two matches, and the development of my own practice across that same period.
The work is less about the events themselves than about duration, return, and continuity. The repeated fixture becomes a marker through which personal history, cultural memory, and architectural form intersect. 28 Years Later considers how time accumulates within places and how looking back and forward simultaneously can reveal the quiet persistence of certain obsessions within a lifelong practice.
- the artist