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The Kick-About #86 ‘Karl Blossfeldt’
Our last Kick-About was inspired by the work of Michael Landy, and artist notable for breaking things into fragments. This week it’s the photography of Karl Blossfeldt, an artist as interested in separating the whole… Read more
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Throwback Friday #157 ‘Morning’ (2016)
After locking myself into that old dark house known only by its number, three five one, I spent that night chasing spectral lights through its many silent, sombre rooms. This is the last image I… Read more
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Whitstable Carnival, August (2023)
On Saturday 4th August, Whitstable hosted its annual carnival, an eclectic and innately peculiar pageant that always fires my imagination, haunted as I am by The Wicker Man. This year, I wrapped my camera lens… Read more
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Samanera #3 (2023)
A final set of images produced for The Kick-About No.85; photographs of two small monkish figures fashioned from the remains of broken terracotta flower pots. There’s a bit of science-fiction in the mix here… infant… Read more
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Chimera Book 1 – Complete
Bringing it all together in one post for your listening pleasure… presenting the complete audio book adaptation of Chimera Book 1 Read more
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Chimera Book 1 / Chapter 21 – The Sin King
Chimera is my children’s book about a world of lost things – and the final episode in the audio adaptation has itself been ‘lost’, vanished by more humdrum stuff and a million less thrilling things.… Read more
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Samanera #2 (2023)
Inspired by Michael Landy’s saints, comprised as they are from broken bits and fragments, a second set of images produced for The Kick-About No.85. Assembled from shards of terracotta flower pots, I was going for… Read more
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Samanera #1 (2023)
So lots going on here in my response to The Kick-About No.85 and the work of artist Michael Landy. I went with ‘fragments and saints’ as my starter-for-ten, and then looked around for the sort… Read more
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The Kick-About #85 ‘Michael Landy’
Our last Kick-About together featured Murano glass as its muse, which included a work by Francesca Maxwell, in which some formerly broken pieces of artful glass were fused together to make a new and satisfying… Read more
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You’ve Always Been The Caretaker
As course leader for an undergraduate programme at the University for the Creative Arts, Rochester, I cherished many things about my role, certainly all the great and obvious stuff about enlivening the imaginations of young… Read more
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