• Throwback Friday #140 ‘Bust, Barcelona’ 2015

    Don’t quote me, but I’m pretty sure I tool this photograph at the Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya in February 2015. I mean, I know I took it back then, during a pretty wonderful student… Read more

  • Short Story: The Mistress’s Quilt (2023)

    Better late than never, right? So this short story was inspired by the narrative quilts of Harriet Powers, the prompt for The Kick-About No.68. I wasn’t able to complete the story by the original submission… Read more

  • Un-sofa #3 (2023)

    A final set of photographs of a plastic-wrapped sofa against an unplastered wall, a couple of which put me in mind of Caspar David Friedrich’s The Sea Of Ice painting. These images were produced for… Read more

  • Throwback Friday #139 ‘Bamboo’ 2014

    Taken in the summer of 2014, a vigorous clump of bamboo at the back of the old French house. Read more

  • Un-sofa #2 (2023)

    A further set of photographs produced in response to The Kick-About No.71, which this week takes the wrapped landscapes of Christo and Jeanne-Claude as its muse. Read more

  • Un-sofa #1 (2023)

    The short version is we bought a new leather sofa recently, which turned out to be too big for the room it was meant for. The sofa came wrapped in plastic – and remains so… Read more

  • The Kick-About #71 ‘Christo & Jeanne-Claude’

    If our last Kick-About showcased new works made in a short time inspired by an extraordinary artist with which some of us were unfamiliar, this week’s online exhibition takes its cue from a very famous… Read more

  • Throwback Friday #138 ‘Centaurea’

    More old-school 35mm flower photographs from the early 2000s or thereabouts, celebrating the gorgeous blues, pinks and purples of centaureas, and here, served two ways: the first being an image of the field cornflower, Centaurea… Read more

  • After Hilma #3 (2022)

    The fast few Hilma Af Klint-inspired images produced for The Kick-About No.70: murky, ominous canvases with a cosmic vibe. Read more

  • Throwback Friday #137 ‘Cornus kousa’ 2007/8

    A welcome reminder of what is to come as we trudge through January… As with many of these horticultural photographs, taken back in the day on 35mm, I have no record of the when or… Read more

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