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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
โSome 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.โ
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Gary Thorne
“There is an all-white A. Paley which caught my fancy. This KA could be enlarged using โPalightโ or โFoamexโ, 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.“
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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.”
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Vanessa Clegg
“Well, I have to confess that I wasnโt 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 lineโฆ 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
“Iโm not a fan of monumental urban art when I think urban spaces should be as full of trees and other greenery as possible and Paleyโs 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 Iโm not sure to what end – with this urban monument to a pagan pearl necklace (broken).”
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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, youโd find yourself transported to some far away placeโฆ I really enjoyed working with the transparent sheets, Iโll definitely be doing it again, so thank you KA for helping generate new creative approaches.“
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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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