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So not so much as a finished ‘thing’ exactly for The Kick-About No.94, but rather a snapshot of making and trying and seeing, and all in response to Kenojuak Ashevak’s expression of wings and feathers. In a classic Kick-About manoeuvre, I moved quickly to act upon my most instinctive association, which led me to the
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The Kick-About No.93 took wing last time out, with the murmuration of starlings as its muse. This week, our loose, but loyal collective of creatives have been finding inspiration in the feathered subjects of Inuit artist, Kenojuak Ashevak. Happy browsing, and all for previous editions of The Kick-About go here. Graeme Daly “I decided to
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A second set of images produced for The Kick-About No.93, in which I sought to recreate the murmurations of starlings through the medium of crushed charcoal and an A4 scanner…
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These impressions of whirling starlings against estruarial skies were produced for The Kick-About No.93 and created by crushing artist’s charcoal with a rolling pin and then sandwiching the resulting dust between sheets of transparent acetate. The sheets were then placed on a scanner; by tapping at the acetate itself, I was able to move the
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Our last Kick-About together was inspired by the lavish pyrotechnical displays of the artist Cai Guo-Qiang. But who needs all those bangs, flashes and falling debris when you’ve got the extraordinary spectacle of the murmuration of birds? Enjoy this latest selection of ‘new works made in a short time’, inspired by one of nature’s most
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More table-top pyrotechnics staged for The Kick-About No.92 aggrandising the miniature charms of indoor fireworks. Of course, health and safety was observed at all times in the making of these photographs (plastic bag over smoke alarm, wet tea towel at arm’s length, husband out of the house, as in ‘What the eye can’t see, the
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I have fond childhood memories of my grandfather putting on a ‘display’ of indoor fireworks in the front room of his house one evening – for some occasion or other I cannot recall. The fireworks were placed on an old baking tray and we watched as each small black pellet or mini-sparkler did its thing
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After the monochromatic density of Harry Clarke’s macabre illustrations, our prompt for The Kick-About No.91, we’re going off with a bang in this latest showcase of new works made in a short time, inspired by the pyrotechnics of gunpowder artist, Cai Guo-Qiang. For all previous editions of The Kick-About, visit the archive here. Gary Thorne
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A few last remnants – much like the visitor himself perhaps – from the photoshoot for The Kick-About No.91, which featured new works made in a short time in response to Harry Clarke’s black and white illustrations for Poe’s Tales of Mystery & Imagination.
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The Kick-About No.91 was inspired by Harry Clarke’s richly black and white illustrations for Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales Of Mystery & Imagination. Suitably inspired, I set about taking some photographs in which a rather sinister-seeming figure lurks about at the edge of the things. In this set of alternates, the visitor has made it inside
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