Well, there was bound to be at least one dud. What feels like a commissioned piece rather than something an artist was genuinely moved to create, Wicket was situated outside the Christchurch’s Hagley Oval in anticipation of the cricket test match that was scheduled to take place there the following year.
Artist Ira Mitchell-Kirk slathers this giraffe in the white silhouettes of cricketeers and the various flags of the participating countries, to commemorate the 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup. According to my souvenir guide (because cricket is about as interesting to me as golf and drying paint), it kicked off with the Blackcaps playing against Sri Lanka – but don’t ask me who won.
But hey, with this giraffe we’ve officially reached the thirties!
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