Last time out, it was the remarkable mini-protrusions of slime moulds that so excited the Kick-Abouters into producing some ‘fruiting bodies’ of their own. This week, it’s the far-bigger structures of Albert Paley inspiring another eclectic showcase of new works made in a short time. For all previous editions of The Kick-About, go here.
Tom Beg
“Ignoring any and all health and safety regulations for artwork in public spaces, I just tried to bring together some motifs from Paley’s statues that stood out to me, especially in his sketches.”
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Graeme Daly
“Some 3D renders of various shapes connected and assembled in a similar fashion to Albert Paley. Very much inspired by previous experiments for my final Uni film.”
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Gary Thorne
“There is an all-white A. Paley which caught my fancy. This KA could be enlarged using ‘Palight’ or ‘Foamex’, which is a great sheet sculpting material which loves shape shifting with heat and it loves paint too. But a prototype in scrap card stands in.“
Phil Gomm
“I thought I’d just roll up my sleeves and get on with building some Paley-inspired maquettes, emulating the sort of ‘kit-bashed’ feel of his sculptures by slotting simple forms together to create something more complicated. That done, I wanted to then devolve the maquettes to produce architectural drawings – whispers of what might be built on an epic-scale one day.”
Vanessa Clegg
“Well, I have to confess that I wasn’t drawn to this but thought they had a kind of (controlled) thrown together quality, sort of tangled in some way, so hooking onto his interest in the environment, I chose a beach stone caught up in fishing line… another found object and two versions, the darker one pushing towards metal maybe?” Graphite and watercolour, Stone in Line.
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James Randall
“I’m not a fan of monumental urban art when I think urban spaces should be as full of trees and other greenery as possible and Paley’s celebratory (of what?) looking art sits uncomfortably with me. Body decoration I get more so. With a great deal of revision, I mashed these expressive forms but I’m not sure to what end – with this urban monument to a pagan pearl necklace (broken).”
Phil Cooper
“I was fascinated by the sculptures of Albert Paley, they seem to be drawing in 3D, so much life and movement in them. Not having a massive steel sculpting studio to hand I made a small doorway or gate on my desk top, painting onto sheets of acrylic to try and get that drawing-in-space feel. I dug out an old painted backdrop and bleak moorland landscape I made for a project some years ago and placed the gate in the landscape to make a kind of magic portal, where, if you walked through, you’d find yourself transported to some far away place… I really enjoyed working with the transparent sheets, I’ll definitely be doing it again, so thank you KA for helping generate new creative approaches.“
Kerfe Roig
“I saw all kinds of different things in Paley’s sculptures, so I just did some free association collages. And one turned into an “extra” card for my Tarot Deck.”
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Tony Reeves
“Cor, this was a tricky one! For me, the thing that stood out about the Paley images was the juxtaposition between regular and irregular. Oddly enough, while I was looking at the images I could hear my dishwasher in the background playing a kind of 5/4 rhythm, and this gave me the inspiration to write a track in 5/4. To me, the Paley images seem to grow and ‘swell’, so I’ve tried to reflect this in the synth lines during the track.”
And for our next run-around in the park with jumpers for goalposts, the artist, Atsuko Tanaka.
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