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Each new issue of the Tangible Territory journal is curated around a specific theme; the latest edition focuses on ‘play’, and it was with this in mind I submitted a proposal about The Kick-About, which, at that point, had just reached its third anniversary. I asked some of the regular Kick-Abouters to say a thing…
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This week’s Kick-About kicked-off with a single word: actiniaria. If you’re looking for some deep conceptualisation this time out, you’ll need to look elsewhere. My brain went, “Hmmm. What readily available domestic item reminds me of a sea anemone?” Having acquired a couple of mop heads, I coloured them with some tie-dye inks and dried…
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Niki de Saint Phalle was the jumping-off point for our last Kick-About, and maybe it was her colourful, sausage-y sculptures that inspired this week’s one-word prompt – the latin name for sea anemones. Enjoy this latest showcase of new works made in a short time and if you want to peruse all previous editions of…
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A few weeks back I was very satisfied to announce that Dan Snelgove and I had completed the audio adaptation of my children’s adventure Chimera, but Dan wasn’t my only collaborator in terms of bringing this project to life. Berlin-based artist, Phil Cooper travelled with us into the story’s fantastical world of lost properties and…
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Not much to say about these, except for the obvious fact of lifting the idea of Niki de Saint Phalle’s ‘shooting paintings’ by loading a water pistol with acrylic paint and shooting it at short-range at some sheets of paper! Originally, I thought this was going to be the beginning of producing work for The…
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Our previous Kick-About was inspired by the orderly, taxonomic horticultural portraits of Karl Blossfeldt. A little less orderly is the work of Niki de Saint Phalle, an artist working across a range of media and scale whose work invites us to explore complex narratives of gender, identity, and societal transformation. Enjoy this latest selection of…
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Recently, sitting opposite an old friend on a fast train, I talked with him about an animation I’d watched years before and many times tried finding again without success. It was such a slight film, I said to him, the shortest of shorts, a wisp, but even as I spoke of it, something began lifting…
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A few posts back I shared some photographs taken of Whitstable Carnival and on that day, I went out with my camera wrapped in yellow cellophane to produce some in-camera atmospheres I thought appropriate to the event. While I was waiting for the carnival to begin processing, I took a few exploratory snaps – including…
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Taken back in July 2020, a largely unremarkable verge beside a largely unremarkable road, rendered painterly by the light and lengthening shadows at the end of the day. I could likely rhapsodise about fields all day!
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What I enjoy about Karl Blossfeldt’s photographs (our prompt for The Kick-About No.86), is the way in which they encourage us to zoom in and out in terms of our associations: I know these are photographs of smallish things, but I start seeing architecture and monumental sculpture and giant wrought-iron constructions. Likewise, I think Blossfeldt’s…
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