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Introducing Mr Voltaic… a Raoul Hausmann-inspired take on those Mr Potato-Head toys for The Kick-About No.102. I don’t think there’s a huge amount to say about this, except I could feel my past-life as a lecturer in animation returning to me as I assembled this ready-made and likewise this poster for the sci-fi classic Forbidden Planet, which
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Our last Kick-About was inspired by the Irish modernist Mainie Jellett. This week’s prompt, Raoul Hausmann’s Mechanical Head, finds thematic resonance with Jellett’s abstract paintings by exploring the disintegration of traditional forms and the reimagining of human identity in the modern age. Enjoy this latest showcase of ‘new works made in a short time’. To
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When I was in my final year of my undergraduate degree, we went to Istanbul on a field trip. I remember the experience as being sensorially overwhelming, exhausting in its intensity and visual richness. I also remember laughing so much and so often in the company of my classmates, my face hurt. This image of
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These digital collages began as physical collages of torn sugar paper to produce textures from which I could cookie-cut other shapes. I wanted to emulate some of the painterly surfaces of Mainie Jellett’s paintings (prompt for The Kick-About No.101) but also some of the formality of her layered shapes. I then went about sub-dividing the






