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The Kick-About #159 | Alberto Giacometti
In our last Kick-About, we explored the woven structures, patterns, and textures of Anni Albers. This week, we turn to Alberto Giacometti, best known for his unmistakable sculptures of elongated figures. As always, the works… Read more
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After Alber (2026)
My response to this week’s Kick-About, inspired by Anni Alber, began by rooting out various off-cuts of fabric I have hanging about, and scanning them. That done, I did a simple thing and began to… Read more
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The Kick-About #158 ‘Anni Albers’
In our last Kick-About, Regina Giménez gave us maps, circles, and carefully arranged geometries. This week, we turn to Anni Albers, whose work helped establish weaving as a modern art form through the ideas and… Read more
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Gobstopper (2026)
My first and most immediate association with Regina Giménez’s work—our prompt for The Kick-About No.157—was childhood memories of those colour-changing, ‘ever-lasting’ gobstopper sweets—sometimes branded as ‘Jawbreakers’ on account of their size. The first image below… Read more
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The Kick-About #157 ‘Regina Giménez’
Following our anniversary edition, we move forward again. Our next prompt looks to the work of Regina Gimenez, whose compositions draw on mapping, astronomy, and geometry to reconfigure familiar systems into something quietly precise. As… Read more
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The Kick-About / 6 Years Later
Improbably, this marks the 156th edition of The Kick-About – a fortnightly creative challenge first started in response to the longueurs of lock-downs. The premise is simple: make something new in response to a given… Read more
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The Kick-About #156 | 313.071
In our last Kick-About, we considered movement and influence — the forces that set things in motion. This time, we pause. Six years in, and some 313 weeks of prompts later, this edition looks back… Read more
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Vis Viva (2026)
A few things in the mix this time as I figured out my response to The Kick-About No.155 (“Movers and Shakers”). For those readers not familiar with UK television, there was a long-running programme on… Read more
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The Kick-About #155 ‘Movers & Shakers’
In our last Kick-About, we embraced the raw energy and instinctive mark-making of Karel Appel. This week, the focus shifts from expression to action. Our prompt is “Movers & Shakers”—an invitation to think about the… Read more
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Dove After Appel (2026)
I was very drawn to the ‘buildability’ of Karel Appel’s sculptures—our prompt for The Kick-About No. 154—with structures comprising sandwiches of flat, simple shapes. With no real plan in mind, I set about creating some… Read more
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