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My immediate response to The Kick-About No.56 was ‘make a film’, so I set about trying to find a means to visualise Sandy Nelson’s percussive effects. I built some simple 2D shapes in the video-editing software and tried to ‘vibrate’ them. I had the image of a cymbal being struck, a disc-shape producing more complex…
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There’s something stripped back and uncompromising about the paintings of Basquiat, the prompt for our last Kick-About together. Likewise Sandy Nelson’s For Drummers Only, a 12 minute drum solo from 1962 that has likely had a few of us bopping about our respective work spaces or reaching for saucepans and wooden spoons to make a…
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It’s been a very hot and sunny week in this small coastal town, with no sign of the north-easterly breeze that more usually cuts through the rising temperature. This image from some similar sunny day back in 2013 was taken by squinting into the sun, with the light managing to make the shingle look like…
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An abstract little something from a student field trip to Prague in February 2014, tram tracks looking like skeins of silver set into the damp cobbles. This was taken on a long walk one very peaceful evening – in stark contrast to our hostel, which was above a night-club, though not ‘above it’ quite enough…
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I took the opportunity of the Basquiat-inspired Kick-About prompt to do something I don’t usually do or identify with particularly, which was to style myself as a ‘painter’, and undertake some expressionist self-portraits.
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Our last Kick-About together was characterised by a whirl of ingenuity, with our community of artists reaching for ad-hoc materials and digging out old tools by which to produce their ‘new works in a short time’. With Jean-Michel Basquiat’s paintings as this edition’s start-point, the range of work is no less inventive, and in common…
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Although we went to New York at the very end of 2014 (and very beginning of 2015), and enjoyed a few days of whirling snow, we were also lucky to enjoy blue skies and winter sun. These photographs of the fountain pool at the Lincoln Center were taken on one such calm and pristine day.
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A final set of photographs produced in response to the avian whirligig of The Kick-About #54, and in response to some of these later images I began to feel real excitement as to the potential for developing this technique still further: I was left thinking about different sorts of maquettes, and different spaces, and different…
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More bird-like imagery produced for The Kick-About #54 by photographing a quickly-made cardboard maquette on various long exposures, with the cardboard ‘thing of feathers’ being launched through the air via the ‘ping’ of a length of elastic. What pleasure there is in taking such mundane constituents, and from them producing moments of metamorphosis and beauty.
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A further set of photographs produced in response to The Kick-About #54, which saw me photographing a cardboard bird-form maquette on various long exposures, which I sent whirling about the rooms of my house on a length of taut, white elastic. There is a Turner-esque quality to some of these images and a pleasure too…
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