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Sydney Morning Herald
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
A town where everything is footy: How a star player is merging sport and art
At the Runner Up rooftop venue in Collingwood Yards, Darcy Vescio is preparing a very different type of clubroom. Carlton's star player in the women's league, leading goalkicker and sometime vice captain, is also a practicing artist. This Saturday, as part of Melbourne Design Week, Runner Up is hosting Re-Imagining the Clubhouse, a one-day exhibition in which 10 artists explore team sports from new angles. Vescio's work subverts the focus on victory, with pink tufted pennant flags commemorating missed goals and lost glories. 'Devastated,' reads one. 'Next year,' reads another. 'These spaces are always about the club's triumphs and celebrated moments,' Vescio says. 'I wanted to explore the failures and moments of sorrow. They're what makes the triumphant moments special.' Footy and art are atypical dual careers. For many, there's a distinct divide between the two. Vescio doesn't see it that way. 'I think I've always liked doing stuff with my hands,' Vescio says. 'Sport and art allow me to be expressive in different ways. When I was a kid, I was either outside playing with a ball or inside with all my art stuff sprawled out on the lounge room floor, scrap booking, making rings, papercraft, anything.' Some of Vescio's earlier works are in the show too, including a large, fluffy rethink of the Brownlow Medal as the 'You Go Alright Trophy', and a colourful painting entitled Markwood, depicting a Sim City-like town where everything is footy, from the oval 'draft pool' to the grinning Luna Park face wearing a mouthguard. It's playful, detailed, and deeply personal. It's also a far cry from the real Markwood, where Vescio grew up. Population 230, 20km outside Wangaratta, it's 'mostly paddocks,' they tell me. Vescio has been kicking a footy since they were five years old. Any paddock was an oval, and any two objects were a goal. To the local community, Vescio was 'the girl who played footy'. 'It spurred me on to be good at it, so I could be part of the team and blend in,' they say. As an AusKick kid, half-time at a men's senior game was their Grand Final. Off the field, they played with their brothers off the main road. 'If I heard a car coming, I'd wait and try to time it so I'd be diving for a mark or doing something spectacular on the off-chance the driver would swivel their head and see. I needed to show people.'
The Age
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Age
A town where everything is footy: How a star player is merging sport and art
At the Runner Up rooftop venue in Collingwood Yards, Darcy Vescio is preparing a very different type of clubroom. Carlton's star player in the women's league, leading goalkicker and sometime vice captain, is also a practicing artist. This Saturday, as part of Melbourne Design Week, Runner Up is hosting Re-Imagining the Clubhouse, a one-day exhibition in which 10 artists explore team sports from new angles. Vescio's work subverts the focus on victory, with pink tufted pennant flags commemorating missed goals and lost glories. 'Devastated,' reads one. 'Next year,' reads another. 'These spaces are always about the club's triumphs and celebrated moments,' Vescio says. 'I wanted to explore the failures and moments of sorrow. They're what makes the triumphant moments special.' Footy and art are atypical dual careers. For many, there's a distinct divide between the two. Vescio doesn't see it that way. 'I think I've always liked doing stuff with my hands,' Vescio says. 'Sport and art allow me to be expressive in different ways. When I was a kid, I was either outside playing with a ball or inside with all my art stuff sprawled out on the lounge room floor, scrap booking, making rings, papercraft, anything.' Some of Vescio's earlier works are in the show too, including a large, fluffy rethink of the Brownlow Medal as the 'You Go Alright Trophy', and a colourful painting entitled Markwood, depicting a Sim City-like town where everything is footy, from the oval 'draft pool' to the grinning Luna Park face wearing a mouthguard. It's playful, detailed, and deeply personal. It's also a far cry from the real Markwood, where Vescio grew up. Population 230, 20km outside Wangaratta, it's 'mostly paddocks,' they tell me. Vescio has been kicking a footy since they were five years old. Any paddock was an oval, and any two objects were a goal. To the local community, Vescio was 'the girl who played footy'. 'It spurred me on to be good at it, so I could be part of the team and blend in,' they say. As an AusKick kid, half-time at a men's senior game was their Grand Final. Off the field, they played with their brothers off the main road. 'If I heard a car coming, I'd wait and try to time it so I'd be diving for a mark or doing something spectacular on the off-chance the driver would swivel their head and see. I needed to show people.'
Yahoo
04-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Former FBI employee living in Central Florida raises concerns about DOGE cuts
A former FBI employee who lives in Central Florida says she is sounding the alarm about the agency's cuts. The FBI launched a wide round of staff cuts to bureaus across the country as the Trump Administration aims to shrink the size of the federal government. Investigative Reporter Ashlyn Webb sat down with Heather Vescio, who says the cuts will come at a cost. Vescio left the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 2018 after a decade with the agency. But now, she's speaking on behalf of her friends who are still working for the FBI. 'They're scared. They're scared for their jobs, but they're scared for the public because they know, just like I know, what's out there and what the potentials are, and people are going to get hurt,' Vescio said. President Donald Trump has backed Elon Musk and DOGEs actions, calling the cuts necessary. 'The overall goal here with the team is to help address the enormous deficit we simply cannot sustain as a country, 2 trillion deficits,' Musk said. Vescio published a blog about her concerns 'That there won't be any people to work the cases. There will be nobody out there to stand between your child and a predator or the parade and a mass shooting. Who's going to do it?,' Vescio said. 'So there's agents to actually investigate each of these cases. And so there might be a length of time before that case is ever looked into,' Webb reiterated. 'Oh yes, that's exactly what it is,' Vescio said. 'And the backlog of cases that we see now, there could be more?,' Webb asked. 'Absolutely,' Vescio replied. The FBI Agents Association represents more than 14,000 active and former FBI agents. In a statement, the association called the cuts 'outrageous.' 'Dismissing potentially hundreds of agents would severely weaken the bureau's ability to protect the country from national security and criminal threats,' the association stated. Vescio says many of the jobs are tough enough to work as is. She worked as a senior forensic examiner in the child exploitation division and later in terrorism. 'Could you talk about the emotional toll it takes?' Webb asked. 'It's facing the reality of the evil that exists among us all every day that I really didn't know existed before I worked those cases. And it's all around us,' Vescio replied. Musk has requested all federal workers send a list of their accomplishments for the week or face termination. FBI Director Kash Patel told FBI employees to pause any responses to the email. Vescio says there are clearance concerns about FBI employees responding to that email. She is also concerned about the people making the decision about where to cut. 'When you have people so far removed making decisions to fire those actually doing the work, it's a problem,' Vescio said. DOGE says it plans to use AI to assess the responses to emails from federal workers. Click here to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And click here to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.
