Footballer by day, graffiti artist by night

Every football player deals with injuries in their own way. SA Hannah Wilkinson (5/28/1992, Whangarei, New Zealand) his thoughts darkened when, in a Cup match in Vittsjo Swede in October 2018, tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee. His participation in his third is in serious doubt world women’s soccer, the France 2019, after a few months. He arrived, but his team was eliminated in the group stage.

During his recovery, he began to compose songs. Wilkinson He has been playing guitar since he was 12 and already has two singles posted on Spotify (Set me free and Waiting for the Sun). “The mental factor of all this is the hardest part. I had many dark days,” he confessed. “Music gave me light.”

Four World Cups

Hannah He started kicking a ball at the age of 8 and at the same time he also sketched drawings. And while he was training as a footballer in University of Tennessee I continued painting and designing. Then he passed through the groups of Sweden, Portugal and Germany before arriving at A-League Australian companion City of Melbourne since 2021. With the team of City Group He has accumulated 20 goals in 28 games. He debuted in the U20 team of ‘Football Nails‘ in January 2010 and after scoring five goals in 3 games, he was called up to the senior team in February of the same year. In June 2011 I was in Germany World Cup. This will be your first World Cup. Then they will come Canada 2015that of France 2019 and finally of Australia and New Zealand 2023. Within world who played at home, Wilkinson is the author of the only goal, against Norway, marking his choice during the appointment. They were left in the group round.

Multidisciplinary

And when he’s not playing or training, he dedicates himself to graphic design and painting murals. To commemorate the Women’s World Cups in football, rugby and cricket, he was commissioned to paint a mural on one of the walls of the legendary stadium. Eden Parkin Auckland. For the mural, Wilkinson It combines elements of native birds, ‘maunga maunga’ and a beautiful koru unfolding to create a silver fern.

The protagonists are connected by a ‘kirituhi’ ribbon. The style is inspired by the unique ‘kowhaiwhai’ art form of New Zealand. A style applicable to other fields such as graphic design, logo design, digital illustration or sketchwork (black and white drawing). He acknowledges that music and painting have helped him overcome “difficult moments of pressure or injury. And that’s where my art really saved me in a lot of ways.”

Football talent on the field by day and great artistic talent.

At the request of the IOC

Olympic artist for Tokyo 2021

There are a group of Olympic athletes who are also artists and the IOC asks them to create works of art during the Games. Wilkinson collaborated with his digital drawings inspired by ‘anime’ to beautify the Olympic Agora at Tokyo’s Mitsokoshimae subway station. Today, his job is at the IOC headquarters in Lausanne.