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Inspired by Michael Landy’s saints, comprised as they are from broken bits and fragments, a second set of images produced for The Kick-About No.85. Assembled from shards of terracotta flower pots, I was going for something silent-seeming and monastic, but likewise inspired by the gliding, unheimlich tailors from The Brother’s Quay animation, Street Of Crocodiles.
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So lots going on here in my response to The Kick-About No.85 and the work of artist Michael Landy. I went with ‘fragments and saints’ as my starter-for-ten, and then looked around for the sort of broken stuff I had about the place in abundance. We’ve got piles of smashed terracotta flower pots in the…
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Our last Kick-About together featured Murano glass as its muse, which included a work by Francesca Maxwell, in which some formerly broken pieces of artful glass were fused together to make a new and satisfying whole. Inspired by the artist, Michael Landy, this latest showcase of new works made in a short time is likewise…
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As course leader for an undergraduate programme at the University for the Creative Arts, Rochester, I cherished many things about my role, certainly all the great and obvious stuff about enlivening the imaginations of young people and doing a decent day’s work in a location characterised by high levels of diversity and low self-esteem.
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A strange and simple portal manifested in the night from the summer of 2015.
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A final collection of Murano glass-inspired orbs produced for The Kick-About No.84. They began life as moving image and there’s certainly a weird little film to be made at some point. I’ll add it to the list.
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Taken back in the summer of 2020, these photographs of a meadow kick-started something of an obsession with nailing the in-situ impressionism of fields. There was something so beautiful about this expanse of flowering grasses, so perfect, that I went all a bit weak-kneed and had to be dragged back to the car. One day…
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Inspired by Murano glass paperweights and produced for The Kick-About No.84, another clutch of painterly orbs.
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I’m going to leave you guessing as to how these ‘paperweights’ were produced, though the creative process did begin with actual glass paperweights and a webcam.
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From the rather austere and ominous sonic manipulations of Delia Derbyshire and our last Kick-About together, to the mouth-watering eye-candies of Murano glass… enjoy this latest collection of new works made in a short time; and if you want to browse all previous editions, you’ll find them collected here.
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