Following our anniversary edition, we move forward again. Our next prompt looks to the work of Regina Gimenez, whose compositions draw on mapping, astronomy, and geometry to reconfigure familiar systems into something quietly precise. As always, the works that follow were made in a short time — and for all previous editions of The Kick-About, go here.
Graeme Daly
“I love a bit of collage, so with these I painted and collaged simple shapes in spaces that felt pleasing and harmonious, to echo the work of Giménez.”
@graemedalyart / vimeo.com/graemedaly / linkedin.com/in/graeme-daly / twitter.com/Graeme_Daly / gentlegiant.ie
Itta Howie
“A diptych inspired by Regina Giménez’s recent pieces, in which she works with more organic shapes and textures. I set out with the intention of creating something map-like, and as I sensed into my inner landscape, I felt a mix of fragility, hope, and strength. I’m navigating my life around an injury at the moment, practising patience, carefully observing what’s possible and what isn’t, and tracking the tiniest progress. Maybe this landscape tells a little of my story.“
Gary Thorne
“Looking to achieve an interplay of random, flat coloured shapes, I first set about line drawing in a random manner. Thereafter, through hard staring, discernible shapes were picked out and painted in with a limited mix of colours — rather like ‘paint by number’, but without the numbered clues. Yet it stubbornly didn’t know where to go next.”
James Randall
“I had the idea that this image of our brown Brisbane River would have a population of floating, map- or river-related icons, but when I added a few, it was just too much. It still needs work, but as the river is shown in plan, it kind of made sense to me.“
Charly Skilling
Phil Gomm
“My first and most immediate association with Giménez’s work was childhood memories of those colour-changing, ‘ever-lasting’ gobstopper sweets—sometimes branded as ‘Jawbreakers’ on account of their size. The first image below is one website’s photograph of their range of giant gobstoppers, a packet of which I purchased on impulse. A few days later, and I’d set up a workbench out in the garden and clamped the first of the Jawbreakers in place, so I could cut it in half with an angle-grinder. I was expecting to be disappointed to discover that the colour-changing properties of the gobstopper had been exaggerated – but no! Once the clouds of sugar settled, I saw this wonderful cross-section of colourful concentric circles. I sanded the two halves to achieve a lovely smooth surface and then spray-lacquered them (much to my husband’s disappointment, who’d been eyeing the gobstoppers with obvious appetite). I did the same with the two remaining Jawbreakers. They are lovely things, highly tactile and they are sitting on my shelf.”
philgomm.com / behance.net/Phil_Gomm
Kerfe Roig
“Last year, I filled a notebook I’d written lists in with ripped-up newspaper pieces, glued over the original text. I decided to use Miró’s geometry as inspiration for brightly coloured pieces collaged on top. I also went through the text to create reverse-erasure “poems” — which are really more like the collage-box phrases I put on the front of my postcards.
As often happens, I did a few pages and then got distracted, but Giménez’s work reminded me of it, so I made some more pages based on her geometry. I’ve included one of the Miró pages for comparison and contrast. Hopefully I won’t wait as long this time to take it up again.”
1
learn how to seek
uphold language
include children
reincarnate
join something
2
in Washington
the documents
lacked appeal
despite
no authority
the emergency
continued
the end of
unknown
immediately
died
sound
refused
to flee
3
decades
remained segregated
because of cash
beliefs
waiting for
light
to guide us
as if
everything is
a gift
4
left as memory
margins
show the missing
visions
inside
always
reform is radical
read the last line
5
be here now
leave room
just a little
for time
wander in silence
6 — miró
many
got paired with
fictional lives
death
struggled with
cerebral
deficiency
Next time, our prompt turns to threads and surfaces — to work built slowly, line by line, through repetition and touch.
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