The Kick-About No.93 took wing last time out, with the murmuration of starlings as its muse. This week, our loose, but loyal collective of creatives have been finding inspiration in the feathered subjects of Inuit artist, Kenojuak Ashevak. Happy browsing, and all for previous editions of The Kick-About go here.
Graeme Daly
“I decided to imagine Ashevak’s creatures in suitable worlds, so here’s an illustration inspired those gorgeous drawings”
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Marion Raper
“I love the art made by Indigenous people. It has a lightness of spirit and a playfulness about it. The artists also have a special rapport with animals and have fun with their designs. After scanning through various pictures of Inuit art, I decided to make up my own fictitious creature by combining four different animals. You can imagine families gathered around the fire telling stories about the day they saw a beast with the head of horse and the tail of a cockerel, running across the skies as fast as a hare or a young reindeer!”
James Randall
“Good to see indigenous art in the KA to inspire us. The fruit bats are roaming the end of day skies as I do my walk and the moon sits low in the darking skies. So they were my inspiration also. Didn’t intend the result to be monochrome but I mucked up my palette and started the project too late to correct it.”
Kerfe Roig
“Of course I was attracted to Ashevak’s human-animal hybrids, and her totemic designs. I love that she used so many birds; had I had more fish in my collage box, I would have included more of them as well. The first collage I did was the one where I most closely imitated her work, but I began to loosen up with each new attempt. I was delighted to see she had invented her own birdling-like creatures, and I made a group of similar birdlings in my style. Instead of actual clothing, I gave them sky shirts and ocean pantaloons. I did not have time to make landscapes for them, but discovered two old earth mandalas which worked well to show their connection to the land, as Ashevak did with all her work. I like that their ocean-sky outfits make them blend into the landscape too.”
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Charly Skilling
“I dabbled about with a couple of different responses to this prompt, with no particular success or satisfaction. Then my eye fell on a pack of brightly coloured pipe-cleaners and I spent a very jolly afternoon creating chickens with their own distinctive style!”
Phil Gomm
“So not so much as a finished ‘thing’ exactly, but rather a snapshot of making and trying and seeing, and all in response to Ashevak’s expression of wings and feathers. In a classic Kick-About manoeuvre, I moved quickly to act upon my most instinctive association, which led me to the idea of … disposable wooden cutlery, the readymades that most put me in mind of the spread of tail feathers and the graphical impression of repeating forms. There’s not much more to say about what came next, except it was another really enjoyable return to the ‘cut and stick’ table and to the activity of play.”
“It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…“
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