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Throwback Friday #167 Sidmouth Beach (1999)
An old 35mm photo of Sidmouth Beach, unearthed from a forgotten stash of holiday snaps. Atmospheric, if a bit yellowish in places! Read more
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Throwback Friday #166 ‘Installation’ (1998)
These rather elliptical photographs are all I have to immortalise the installation I built for my MA show back in 1998. Somewhere, there is a short film too, called 17 Silks and a Stepladder, which documents… Read more
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Head Piece 2 #2 (2024)
Some alternate images produced for this week’s Kick-About No.98, inspired originally by the inflated portraits of Fernando Botero. They began with high-resolution scans of a rubber mask and were then ‘put into three dimensional space’ in… Read more
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Head Piece 2 (2024)
Perhaps like many of us now, I have a collection of odd things left over from previous Kick-Abouts; for example, a latex mask of a rather stern-looking older man, last seen in these Harry Clarke-inspired… Read more
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The Kick-About #98 ‘Fernando Botero’
Our previous Kick-About, on a theme of vanitas, got us contemplating the effects of time on our minds and bodies. Meanwhile, the portly subjects of Fernando Botero’s paintings are in rude health, inspiring this latest collection… Read more
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Throwback Friday #165 “We Like Leaves” (June, 2023)
Back in early June 2023, we had the unusual experience of accommodating a BBC film crew in our very small Whitstable garden. The long-running BBC television show, Gardener’s World paid us a visit as part of… Read more
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Ding’s Learning Design Almanac (2024)
It’s not very often that I talk about my ‘proper job’ on Red’s Kingdom. Red’s Kingdom is a space for all those other dimensions of thinking, watching, making and doing. That said, I do have some… Read more
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Throwback Friday #164 ‘Monster Face 1994’
In truth, I don’t know what is more horrible; the ghoulish guy with the suppurating face or the cork-effect wallpaper and tasselled granny lampshape? These snaps date from October 1994, photographs from a Halloween party at… Read more
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Quince (2024)
Did you know … quinces hold diverse symbolic meanings across cultures; they are commonly associated with love and romance, symbolising the enduring sweetness of relationships. Additionally, quinces represent fertility and abundance, often bestowed as wishes… Read more
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The Kick-About #97 ‘Vanitas’
Our previous Kick-About, inspired as it was by the paper-layerings of artist Maud Vantours, prompted a number of us to consider the ephemera we collect about us and repurpose it. For this edition of our fortnightly… Read more
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