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Fledglings #2 (2023)
Fashioned from quick-drying plaster, rawlplugs, feathers and wire, these fledgling ‘borogroves’ were produced for the Lewis Carroll-themed Kick-About No.82. As of writing, these little bird things are roosting on various surfaces in my house. I… Read more
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Fledglings #1 (2023)
Inspired by the delinquent sparrows, adolescent starlings and industrious blackbirds that are always bustling about so comedically in our garden, I decided I’d give my surplus energies this week to imagining some fledgling borogroves -… Read more
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The Kick-About #82 ‘Twas Brillig’
Our last Kick-About together sent us deep into Klimt’s pine forest, where inspiration waited for us between the trees. Something else waits for us in the woods this week.. Beware, the Jabberwock! Read more
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Kings Wood (2023)
So not a pine forest (Klimt’s Tannenwald being the prompt for The Kick-About No.81), but a beech wood carpeted with bluebells. These photographs were produced by over-exposing a lot to introduce lots of white into… Read more
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The Kick-About #81 ‘Tannenwald’
Charles Sheeler, our prompt for our previous Kick-About, transformed his man-made landscapes into flattened, graphical patchworks. Klimt’s painting, Tannenwald is similarly transformative, magicking a forest of ubiquitous pine trees into something as tactile and richly… Read more
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Throwback Friday #152 The Great Islington Brain Drain (2017)
In a previous life, I would always find myself fiercely preoccupied May-through-June with designing and fund-raising for my final year students’ graduate showcase at New Designers in Islington, London. Read more
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Brett’s #2 (2023)
A few more photographs of the Brett’s aggregate factory, Whitstable, taken in response to the Charles Sheeler prompt for The Kick-About No.80. Read more
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Throwback Friday #151 Honesty (2016)
I love Lunaria annua, with its translucent paper discs and silhouetted seeds. This bunch of seed heads were harvested from the scrub at the edges of the Old French House and poked into a big… Read more
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Brett’s #1 (2023)
One of the things guarding against the prettification of my home town is the presence of an aggregate factory slap-bang in the harbour. With Charles Sheeler’s flattened abstractions in my sights – this week’s Kick-About… Read more
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The Kick-About #80 ‘Charles Sheeler’
Textile artist, Sheila Hicks, inspired our last Kick-About together, and it was all soft, cushiony forms, meshes and string. This time out, we’re keeping company with Charles Sheeler and his crisp, clean expressions of modernity. Read more
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