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Our last Kick-About celebrated our 100th prompt, with new works made in a short time on a theme of that auspicious round number. That’s a lot of new-things-tried and experimentation – much like Mainie Jellett’s exploration of abstraction, which broke away from conventional artistic norms. Phil Cooper “I love the Kick-About for many reasons, it
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This is a Kick-About #100 bonus feature… As part of my recent KA-inspired transformation into the rather mournful figure of Le Mille-Pattes Humain, I had to create a head-piece out of an existing mask I’d made for The Kick-About No.47 and a whole load of latex rubber gloves. After the photoshoot, the disembodied head reminded
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This week’s Kick-About was a celebration; our 100th edition, which means 100 creative prompts and 100 ‘new works made in a short time’. For my offering, I began with ‘100 latex gloves’ and ended up playing a strange game of ‘dress-up’, inspired in part by Angela Carter’s Nights At The Circus, by Tod Browning’s Freaks
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So let me tell you how all of this started… It began with me researching the Hecatoncheires – the hundred-handed giants of Greek mythology. Then, in classic Kick-About style, I leapt at once to acquiring a box of 100 latex gloves. That done, I got thinking about other hundred-limbed things, and arrived at centipedes, and probably because
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Our last Kick-About was a fantasia on some pretty big numbers; for example, the Hubble eXtreme Deep Field photograph’s million seconds of exposure reveal about 5500 galaxies! We’re celebrating a biggish number too this week – our 100th edition of The Kick-About! Congratulations to everyone who has participated in this fortnightly skirmish. It is one thing
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I can take no credit for the odd, dreamlike quality of these two photographs. You’re looking at light bleeds and lots of airborne dust. That said, they capture this moment well, which saw me living in the attic of my late grandmother’s house while I gave the whole place a make-over in advance of the
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Back when I did my Foundation in Art and Design at the Amersham and Wycombe College in 1993, my final project was, on reflection, a fanboy’s love letter to the science-fiction Alien franchise and a manifestation of my then-ambition to work in the movies. This ‘Black Widow’ encompassed a whole bunch of making techniques, everything
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A second set of science-fiction-inspired photographs produced using a fishbowl, sequins and a wooden spoon, produced for The Kick-About No.99. Cut-price special effects!
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I wanted to begin with these ‘behind-the-scenes’ photographs; a big glass fishbowl-like vase, a wooden spoon and loads of floating sequins. My mind’s eye kept showing me the special effects sequences from Disney’s unloved 1979 live-action film, The Black Hole, so I set about recreating something similar on my kitchen table for the The Kick-About
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Our last Kick-About together was inspired by the orb-ish flesh and faces of Fernando Botero. This week it’s the mightier spheres and gas giants of the Hubble telescope’s mind-blowing photograph of the cosmos. Enjoy this latest showcase of new works made in a short time, and you can browse all previous editions of The Kick-About here. Vanessa
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