From the rather austere and ominous sonic manipulations of Delia Derbyshire and our last Kick-About together, to the mouth-watering eye-candies of Murano glass… Enjoy this latest collection of new works made in a short time; and if you want to browse all previous editions, you’ll find them collected here.
Francesca Maxwell
“I have been around a lot of Murano glass and saw the Island and the making of it. I am not sure if my love for glass comes specifically from it, but their tradition of playing with this magical material as an art form and not just as a utilitarian material is what I grew up with. The piece that has inspired me the most was a round disc of concentric colours mounted on a metal rod and pedestal, like a large lollypop, which used to stand in my uncle’s house by the Lugano Lake. Simple but beautiful. With that piece in mind, I have made similar standing pieces and circular ones. I am sending you one I did with the thought of sailing on the sea. It got broken and re-fused again. I love this property of glass to be re-usable, re-meltable, re-imaginable…“
Tom Beg
“I like how certain pieces of Murano glass look like colourful micro-organisms or collections of spores on a petri dish when viewed up close. I duly used that as the jumping-off point to create these clusters of graphical thingies with a big helping of distortion to give it a further glassy effect.”
twitter.com/earthlystranger / vimeo.com/tombeg / tombeg.com
Charly Skilling
“I spent so long looking at images of Murano glass online, that at least one company has decided I’m a definite prospect for a big sale – if only they can keep up a constant stream of adverts for their original Murano Glass… Unfortunately, I do not have a spare thousand to spend on a piece of millefiori glass, gorgeous though it is, but I do happen to have some epoxy resin and an awful lot of buttons!”
Graeme Daly
“Not glass per say, but I decided to use some reflective quality sweet wrappers and warp and overlay them into abstract colourful compositions”
@graemedalyart / vimeo.com/graemedaly / linkedin.com/in/graeme-daly / twitter.com/Graeme_Daly / gentlegiant.blog
Phil Gomm
“I’m going to leave you guessing as to how these ‘paperweights’ were produced, though the creative process did begin with actual glass paperweights and a webcam. Some pretty interesting stuff got started along the way, and as is so often the case with the Kick-About, a door opened up into a whole new way of thinking about how to get stuff done.”
Kerfe Roig
“Murano glass seems made for watercolor. I did paintings on both watercolor paper and rice paper. Grid one is made from a cut-up rice paper painting, two is from watercolor paper, and the third one combines the two by weaving them. I’ve done this kind of thing before but I was inspired by seeing the woven pieces in the Gego exhibit at the Guggenheim. Other inspiration from her work is marinating…“
kblog.blog / methodtwomadness.wordpress.com
James Randall
And up next for your delight and delectation… the works of Michael Landy.
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