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Early last year, when I was in France, I found a stash of wonderfully rusty implements, stuffed into a deep crevice in an old wall. I don’t know why they were hidden away like that, but the keys are these great big ‘storybook’ ones that should be hanging off the belt of a wizard. The
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For our last Kick-About, we revelled in the razor-sharp satire of James Gillray. This week it’s a celebration of found things, forgotten relics, and hidden gems brought into the light—and for all previous editions of The Kick-About, click here. Graeme Daly “My niece and I were both watching a favourite film of ours—The Goonies—and one
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Our latest Kick-About prompt made my 3D-fingers itch: something about James Gillray’s physical deformations and soft, pink colour palette had me defaulting to this technique, in which you ‘free-build’ out of pads of stuffed nylon and use a needle and thread to ‘sculpt’. Next, you use PVA glue to harden the object, and then you
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The last edition of The Kick-About found us immersed in the symbolic world of Kiki Smith, where myth, body, and nature intertwined. This time, the mood shifts as we relish the biting wit and exaggerated forms of James Gillray, inspiring these latest works created in a short time. For all previous editions of The Kick-About,
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I liked the strong narrative element—and the scratchy, witchy vibes of Kiki Smith’s figures (our prompt for The Kick-About No. 127) that sense too of the promise of magic, and the environs of the woods. I don’t draw really, but I decided I’d just begin something by using charcoal on tracing paper to conjure up
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Our last edition of The Kick-About immersed us in the shimmering world of iridescence—a celebration of light in perpetual transformation. This week, we turn our attention to the evocative art of Kiki Smith, whose work probes themes of mortality, the human body and the interplay of myth and nature. For all previous editions of The
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I was interested in creating opals and geodes as my response to The Kick-About’s theme of iridescence, so wrapped big spoonfuls of wet filler in bags of clingfilm and suspended them to dry over night. The next day, I unpeeled the foodwrap, leaving me with this array of organic, orb-ish forms. I went about using
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The last edition of The Kick-About had us all staring at Rorschach’s famous ink-blots, as if, by doing so, we could slip past these blotches to apprehend our inner-selves. This week, it’s not so much about divining hidden depths, as delighting in the surface of things. For all previous editions of The Kick-About go here.
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These bug-themed images began life very simply – as random mirrored silhouettes created using…. wait for it… the ‘insert random shape-maker’ tool in Powerpoint. I was looking for a starting point with minimum finesse or creative promise: much like an ink splash or accidental ring of coffee. After that, I was able to take the
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