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Written for The Kick-About No.95, a seasonal short story with both darkness and light at its heart. I wouldn’t say Merry Christmas exactly… You can find a PDF here
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If our previous Kick-About transported us into a world of ice and some of its fantastical denizens, courtesy of Inuit artist Kenojuak Ashevak, this, our last KA of 2023, is a celebration (of sorts) of things we may associate with the big fella in red and other emblems of Christmas. If you want to browse all…
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A theatrical little number from my all-nighter at No. 351 back in the summer of 2016. As I recall it, this image was produced quite early on in the night; I couldn’t resist the idea of those mustard yellow stairs and the icier blue of the little LED I was whirling about on a very long…
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Every now and then, I rediscover things on old USBs, compact discs and hard drives, forgotten fragments from art college, old photographs, and scraps of unfinished stories or similar. Most recently, I found a couple of photographs dating back to when I was twenty years old (so just about 29 years ago!) and, given their…
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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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