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A Riot of Colour with Agnès Ricart

Agnès Ricart is a multimedia artist from Spain who—close Racquet readers will confirm—has been a staple in our visual vocabulary for the better part of a decade. Alongside classic Racquet illustrations such as Medvedev flipping the bird at the collected crowd at the US Open, Naomi Osaka's masked protest during COVID and even a protester using a tennis racquet to clear a cannister of tear gas. Her work is vivid and cheeky, and can be seen across the world from The Guardian to Die Ziet to the Economist. We asked her to bring to life an ode to the tennis ball in our latest issue, and to sit down for a Q&A about her artistic practice.

1:37 PM EDT on April 24, 2026

What’s your origin story? How did you come to be a top illustrator and animator, while managing to live in beautiful Valencia, Spain? 

I grew up in a tiny village in the Valencian countryside. I have a background in Fine Arts, along with two Master’s degrees in Art Education and Art Production. During my studies in the UK, I exhibited at the Oxford Museum of Art, an experience that broadened my perspective and pushed me to think internationally.