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The last time I felt compelled to build a figurine for the purposes of The Kick-About, I reached for the one thing of which we always have a lot: terracotta flower pots. Indeed, as soon as I saw these wonderful Chinelo carnival costumes – the prompt for The Kick-About No.109 – I got thinking about
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This week’s Kick-About was catalysed by the gorgeous and characterful artwork of Atsuko Tanaka, which had me popping off the lids on those tiny pots of enamel paint and pouring some Tanaka-inspired pools and puddles onto some thick acrylic sheet. After that, I wanted to somehow three-dimensionalise these blobs, because I was imagining Tanaka’s artworks
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So this began with Atsuko Tanaka’s use of enamel paint to produce her richly saturated blobs and circles. I sourced some of those tiny Humbrol enamel paints, used, I think, for painting model planes and lead figures. In short, I just poured little puddles of enamel paint onto a sheet of perspex and allowed them
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From Albert Paley’s street-sized curlicues of metal to the colour, energy and molecularity of Japanese artist, Atsuko Tanaka… enjoy this latest collection of ‘new works made in a short time’ and browse all previous editions of The Kick-About here. Vanessa Clegg “I had to use whatever was available… so with little time I grabbed my
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A few more Albert Paley-inspired images produced for The Kick-About No.107. I was enjoying the slight mid-20th century vibe getting started in some of these.
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I thought I’d just roll up my sleeves and get on with building some Albert Paley-inspired maquettes for The Kick-About No.107, 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
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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
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I’m fascinated by the uncanny. When writing about this cognitive phenomenon, it is customary to kick things off with Sigmund Freud and his 1919 essay, ‘Das Unheimliche’, which, for my money, rather spoils things a bit. The problem with the uncanny is the very act of describing it makes it harder to comprehend; all that
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Just a simple, straight-forward thing from me this week in response to the slime mould prompt for The Kick-About No. 106. I just loved the jewellery-like aesthetic of some of these beautiful slime moulds, so I sourced some glass-headed pins and a slice of olive wood and amassed my own colonies.
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