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The Visitor Part 2 (2023)
The Kick-About No.91 is a spookier affair, taking Harry Clarke’s illustrations for Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales of Mystery & Imagination as its macabre muse this week. Clarke’s black and white illustrations are characterised by their… Read more
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The Visitor Part 1 (2023)
Inspired by the hushed daylight scares of John Carpenter’s Halloween and the dense textural noise of Harry Clarke’s illustrations that seem to cloak and conceal their subjects, I set about staging some unsettling figure-centric photographs… Read more
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The Kick-About #91 ‘Harry Clarke’
Our last Kick-About together was inspired by the simple figurative line work of Jogen Chowdhury. The human figure is front and centre in this latest edition too, with this week’s ‘artworks made in a short… Read more
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Furrow (2023)
I took The Kick-About No.90 as an opportunity to pare things down as simply as some of Jogen Chowdhury’s drawings, so I began by drawing a circle and a square with a nice ink pen… Read more
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The Kick-About #90 ‘Jogen Chowdhury’
After the interplay of light and colour of our last Kick-About together, enjoy these new works made in a short time inspired by the figurative lines of Jogen Chowdhury. For all previous editions of The… Read more
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Cyanotypes (2023)
Surrounded as it is by woodland, the impulse to produce cyanotypes is largely irresistible when I visit the old French house. There’s something very satisfying about the immediacy of working with ‘sun paper’ and watching… Read more
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Polychrome #3 (2023)
A final bunch of photographs produced in the run-up to The Kick-About No.89, inspired by the works of the artist Carlos Cruz-Diez. Lots of iterations and similar treatments of the subject as I explored the… Read more
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Polychrome #2 (2023)
A second batch of photographs produced for our most recent Kick-About, featuring new works inspired by the artist Carlos Cruz-Diez. A simple set-up – acetate ruled with fine stripes of different colours – and then… Read more
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Polychrome #1 (2023)
Picking up where I left off with this technique, I spent several very pleasurable hours playing with colour, light and layering to produce some table-top installations inspired by Cruz-Diez’s simple/magical transformations of site and situation… Read more
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The Kick-About #89 ‘Carlos Cruz-Diez’
Our last Kick-About invited us into the wonderful realm of the sea anemone. Just as Actiniaria exhibit a diverse array of vibrant colours and patterns, Carlos Cruz-Diez’s art employs a spectrum of hues and optical… Read more
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