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Jazzy Triangle (2026)
I took my inspiration for these images for The Kick-About No. 160 from the lovely short film Pas de Deux by Norman McLaren, as it shares with Jazzy Triangle Meets a Square Square a stroboscopic… Read more
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The Kick-About #160 | Jazzy Triangle Meets A Square Square
In our last Kick-About, Alberto Giacometti gave us figures reduced to their essentials — spare forms standing in space. This time, we move from sculpture to animation, and from the human figure to simple geometry.… Read more
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Taranto (2026)
With Albert Giacometti’s sculptures as our recent Kick-About muse, I made some strange little figures of my own. I called them Stigmatics after their poppy-like head-shapes, and because this grouping of strange, silent characters made… Read more
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Stigmatics (2026)
More tiny, table-top sculptures inspired by Giacometti’s strange, attenuated figures—our muse for The Kick-About No.159—I had half a packet of mass-produced vinyl heads I’d sourced for this Kick-About project, and one of them was stuck… Read more
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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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