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Our previous Kick-About celebrated the idiosyncrasies of the ceramicist George Ohr, whose vessels are characterised by their deformations and glossy, melty glazes. As preoccupied with optical wobbles is this week’s muse, Victor Vasarely, inspiring another collection of new works made in a short time. For all previous editions of The Kick-About, go here. James Randall…
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You get a real sense from George Ohr’s work of the possible freedoms for creative people that come with not benchmarking ourselves against ‘everyone else’ – much harder to do now when we can always see what everyone else is doing (and how well they’re doing it!). For this week’s Kick-About, I was drawn to…
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Our last Kick-About was inspired by performative birds-of-paradise with their quirky and eccentric behaviours by which to garner attention. No less quirky (and no less plumaged!) is this edition’s muse – the ceramicist, George Edgar Ohr – otherwise known as ‘the mad potter of Biloxi’. Enjoy this latest collection of new works made in a…
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A few alternates and un-used photographs produced in response to The Kick-About No.110 in my ongoing attempt to nudge some dangling feathers towards some kind of ‘greater-than-the-some-its-parts’ transformation. Not sure anything of note happened here in all honesty, but here they are.
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Just trying to evoke some breezy, feathery displays in response to last week’s bird of paradise-themed Kick-About. This was a simple set-up of some feathers on thread hanging in front of some white card close to an open door, to produce some movement and drift.
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Our last Kick-About featured as its muse the splendid and colourful costumes of the Mexican chinelos. This week it’s those equally showy performers from the bird of paradise family inspiring this latest collection of new works made in a short time. For all previous editions of The Kick-About click here. Judy Watson “Hello Kick-About! I…
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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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