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Another ominous manifestation of light and energy arrives without warning in the old house in the dead of night…
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Back when I was teaching an undergraduate course, one of my yearly highlights was a screening for students of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho on the big screen. There are many showier reasons for enjoying this film, but I always loved the Saul Bass-designed opening titles – those simple horizontal lines sliding in across the frame with…
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From the lovely free-wheeling associations of our last Kick-About together, to the pared-down, typographic compositions of graphic designer and film-maker, Saul Bass, welcome to another showcase of new works made in a short time.
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As perfectly arranged as those flying ceramic ducks fastened in place to sitting room walls, a foursome of black-headed gulls take-wing on their way out to sea.
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Ted Kotcheff’s 1971 film Wake In Fright is one of my favourite things. Here’s why.
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A few final scraps from The Kick-About #48; I tried starting from a different drawing of a different house plant – a fishbone cactus – but didn’t enjoy these outcomes as fulsomely. Still, they got my print and textile muscle a-twitching nonetheless.
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Taken one damp, misty morning on the beach; an instance where the camera’s struggle to arrest the detail of a moving subject produces a more apposite expression of the subject.
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A few more Louise Baldwin-inspired abstracts produced for The Kick-About #48 – variations on the same original sketch of one of those elegant Flying Saucer Plants. Not much guiding these, just trying to generate as much exuberance as possible.
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What a joyful Kick-About prompt this was (and a welcome palate cleanser after the severed heads of recent days). Textile artist Louise Baldwin’s work gave me permission to draw quickly and instinctively, and embrace colour and abstraction, to produce a whole series of exuberant large-scale compositions. I just sat down and drew a few impressions…
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If the last Kick-About got us circling around ideas of different pieces and the ties that bind them, this week’s showcase, inspired by the free-associating permissions of Lousie Baldwin’s contemporary textiles, is an offering no less preoccupied with fragments, layers, and bits. Enjoy this latest collection of ‘new works made in a short time’, in…
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