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Murmuration #1 (2023)
These impressions of whirling starlings against estruarial skies were produced for The Kick-About No.93 and created by crushing artist’s charcoal with a rolling pin and then sandwiching the resulting dust between sheets of transparent acetate.… Read more
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The Kick-About #93 ‘Murmuration’
Our last Kick-About together was inspired by the lavish pyrotechnical displays of the artist Cai Guo-Qiang. But who needs all those bangs, flashes and falling debris when you’ve got the extraordinary spectacle of the murmuration… Read more
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Spectacle #2 (2023)
More table-top pyrotechnics staged for The Kick-About No.92 aggrandising the miniature charms of indoor fireworks. Of course, health and safety was observed at all times in the making of these photographs (plastic bag over smoke… Read more
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Spectacle #1 (2023)
I have fond childhood memories of my grandfather putting on a ‘display’ of indoor fireworks in the front room of his house one evening – for some occasion or other I cannot recall. The fireworks… Read more
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The Kick-About #92 ‘Cai Guo-Qiang’
After the monochromatic density of Harry Clarke’s macabre illustrations, our prompt for The Kick-About No.91, we’re going off with a bang in this latest showcase of new works made in a short time, inspired by… Read more
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The Visitor Part 4 (2023)
A few last remnants – much like the visitor himself perhaps – from the photoshoot for The Kick-About No.91, which featured new works made in a short time in response to Harry Clarke’s black and… Read more
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The Visitor Part 3 (2023)
The Kick-About No.91 was inspired by Harry Clarke’s richly black and white illustrations for Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales Of Mystery & Imagination. Suitably inspired, I set about taking some photographs in which a rather sinister-seeming… Read more
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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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