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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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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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