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After Hilma #2 (2022)
A second set of images inspired by the Swedish artist, Hilma Af Klint and produced for The Kick-About No.70, deriving originally from some inconsequential doodles in the margins of to-do lists etc, before being layered… Read more
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After Hilma #1 (2022)
That I’d never heard of Hilma Af Klint before The Kick-About No.70 has left me soul-searching ever since… How’s it possible this fascinating artist has been otherwise invisible to me? I guess the answer to… Read more
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The Kick-About #70 ‘Hilma Af Klint’
Our last Kick-About together celebrated that deep-winter symbol of light-in-the-darkness, the Christmas tree. Our next creative foray (our first of 2023) is likewise exploring the desire for illumination, but with artist and mystic Hilma Af… Read more
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Christmas Tree #3 (2022)
And finally, like the little match girl herself, I popped outside into the bitter cold and dark, and snapped a few images of my stand-in Kick-About ‘Christmas tree’ as it might appear to any curious… Read more
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Christmas Tree #2 (2022)
And so, making full use of the strange, empty room in the middle of our small, cold house, I set about recreating another semblance of the Christmas tree for our room-without-one. A few little lights… Read more
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Christmas Tree #1 (2022)
One of the places in the house you might expect to encounter the simple delights of a Christmas tree (the prompt for The Kick-About No.69) is positioned just so beside a warming fire… Unfortunately, my… Read more
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The Kick-About #69 ‘The Christmas Tree’
With the season of goodwill fast approaching, enjoy this latest selection of new works made in a short time, and with the Christmas tree – in all its creative incarnations – as this week’s inspiration. Read more
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Throwback Friday #136 Lights, New York (2014)
Taken from ‘the top of the Rock’ in New York back in December 2014. Christmas lights on a different scale… Read more
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Throwback Friday #135 Albert Street, December 3rd
Not throwing back too far this week, only as far as last weekend, which saw ‘the great switch-on’ of the Albert Street Christmas lights. This year, we inherited a much longer stretch of icicles, hence… Read more
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The Kick-About #68 ‘Harriet Powers’
In common with the quilts of Harriet Powers, our previous Kick-About was inspired by works of art comprising fragments and scraps, brought together to impressive and thought-provoking effect. While Powers’ quilts are smaller, simpler things,… Read more
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