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Actinia mopum (2023)
This week’s Kick-About kicked-off with a single word: actiniaria. If you’re looking for some deep conceptualisation this time out, you’ll need to look elsewhere. My brain went, “Hmmm. What readily available domestic item reminds me… Read more
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The Kick-About #88 ‘Actiniaria’
Niki de Saint Phalle was the jumping-off point for our last Kick-About, and maybe it was her colourful, sausage-y sculptures that inspired this week’s one-word prompt – the latin name for sea anemones. Enjoy this… Read more
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Phil Cooper / Painting Chimera Complete
A few weeks back I was very satisfied to announce that Dan Snelgove and I had completed the audio adaptation of my children’s adventure Chimera, but Dan wasn’t my only collaborator in terms of bringing… Read more
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Pistol (2023)
Not much to say about these, except for the obvious fact of lifting the idea of Niki de Saint Phalle’s ‘shooting paintings’ by loading a water pistol with acrylic paint and shooting it at short-range… Read more
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The Kick-About #87 ‘Niki de Saint Phalle’
Our previous Kick-About was inspired by the orderly, taxonomic horticultural portraits of Karl Blossfeldt. A little less orderly is the work of Niki de Saint Phalle, an artist working across a range of media and… Read more
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MFT #15 We Used To Call People Late At Night (2008)
Recently, sitting opposite an old friend on a fast train, I talked with him about an animation I’d watched years before and many times tried finding again without success. It was such a slight film,… Read more
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Throwback Friday #159 Street Light, Carnival Day (2023)
A few posts back I shared some photographs taken of Whitstable Carnival and on that day, I went out with my camera wrapped in yellow cellophane to produce some in-camera atmospheres I thought appropriate to… Read more
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Throwback Friday #158 Marshside (2020)
Taken back in July 2020, a largely unremarkable verge beside a largely unremarkable road, rendered painterly by the light and lengthening shadows at the end of the day. I could likely rhapsodise about fields all… Read more
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Blossfeldt’s Big Show (2023)
What I enjoy about Karl Blossfeldt’s photographs (our prompt for The Kick-About No.86), is the way in which they encourage us to zoom in and out in terms of our associations: I know these are… Read more
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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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