About this artwork
The Scottish Arts Council commissioned Malcolm Hill to create a series of photographs on football some time in the late sixties or early seventies. What is curious about the images of Hampden Park, the world-class stadium in Glasgow, owned by Queens Park Football Club, is that none of them actually shows the game. All the references are to off-the-pitch scenarios: the crowd queuing for tickets, the barbed wire on the walls around the stadium, or, as here, two unidentified men sitting in the empty stand.
Updated before 2020
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artist:Malcolm Hill (1938 - 2002) Scottish
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title:Hampden Park Football Ground, Two Men Seated
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date created:Early 1970s
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measurements:25.40 x 16.80 cm
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credit line:Presented by the Scottish Arts Council 1997
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accession number:PGP 213.33
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Malcolm Hill
Malcolm Hill
Malcolm Hill was a professional architect who worked in private practice throughout his career. His is the design of the attractive Royal Bank of Scotland building in West George Street, Glasgow. An amateur photographer from an early age, Hill was commissioned by the Scottish Arts Council to...