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The Kick-About No.91 is a spookier affair, taking Harry Clarke’s illustrations for Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales of Mystery & Imagination as its macabre muse this week. Clarke’s black and white illustrations are characterised by their surface pattern and detail; they are noisy with line and texture. For my part, I was interested in dialling things
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Inspired by the hushed daylight scares of John Carpenter’s Halloween and the dense textural noise of Harry Clarke’s illustrations that seem to cloak and conceal their subjects, I set about staging some unsettling figure-centric photographs of my own for The Kick-About No.91. Turns out it is easy to spook yourself, even when you know you’re
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Our last Kick-About together was inspired by the simple figurative line work of Jogen Chowdhury. The human figure is front and centre in this latest edition too, with this week’s ‘artworks made in a short time’ riffing on Harry Clarke’s illustrations for Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales Of Mystery & Imagination. For all previous editions of The
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I took The Kick-About No.90 as an opportunity to pare things down as simply as some of Jogen Chowdhury’s drawings, so I began by drawing a circle and a square with a nice ink pen onto some textural, handmade paper. The two shapes were generated through lines – and none of them particularly neat or
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After the interplay of light and colour of our last Kick-About together, enjoy these new works made in a short time inspired by the figurative lines of Jogen Chowdhury. For all previous editions of The Kick-About, click here. Vanessa Clegg “I took one look at this and decided recent(ish) screen prints would be a fine
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Surrounded as it is by woodland, the impulse to produce cyanotypes is largely irresistible when I visit the old French house. There’s something very satisfying about the immediacy of working with ‘sun paper’ and watching these silvery forms materialise before your very eyes.
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A final bunch of photographs produced in the run-up to The Kick-About No.89, inspired by the works of the artist Carlos Cruz-Diez. Lots of iterations and similar treatments of the subject as I explored the layering, the threads, and the shine of the acetate itself.
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A second batch of photographs produced for our most recent Kick-About, featuring new works inspired by the artist Carlos Cruz-Diez. A simple set-up – acetate ruled with fine stripes of different colours – and then photographed as a table-top installation.
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Picking up where I left off with this technique, I spent several very pleasurable hours playing with colour, light and layering to produce some table-top installations inspired by Cruz-Diez’s simple/magical transformations of site and situation – prompt for The Kick-About No.89. By defocusing and/or pushing the focus through one layer to another, I was able
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Our last Kick-About invited us into the wonderful realm of the sea anemone. Just as Actiniaria exhibit a diverse array of vibrant colours and patterns, Carlos Cruz-Diez’s art employs a spectrum of hues and optical effects to evoke dynamic visual experiences. Enjoy this latest collection of new works made in a short time inspired by…
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