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The Kick-About #74 ‘Ruth Asawa’
In common with our last Kick-About together, which was inspired by cephalopods (those buoyant, ballooning denizens of the deep), this latest showcase of new works made in a short time features an array of responses… Read more
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Throwback Friday #142 ‘Chromatophores’ (2023)
Today’s Throwback Friday is a short one, only as far back as a matter of weeks. For The Kick-About No.73, inspired by cephalopods, I made a short film, prompted by an octopus’s ability to change… Read more
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Somewhere An Octopus Is Dreaming (2023)
Produced for The Kick-About No.73, and inspired directly by this footage of a sleeping octopus, I went about imagining both the interior and exterior expression of a dreaming cephalopod, further inspired by the finale to Spielberg’s… Read more
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The Kick-About #73 ‘Cephalopod’
Our last Kick-About was prompted by a work of art celebrated for its complex commentary on the act of looking. The subject of this week’s showcase of new works made in a short time is… Read more
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Throwback Friday #141 ‘Albert Street Garden’ 2022
Taken at the height of summer in our garden in 2022, a blast of colour for these first few days of boring old February. What have we got here? Salvias, rudbeckias and heleniums mostly. Boom! Read more
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Les miroirs (2023)
What really resonated with me in regards to Diego Velázquez’s Las Meninas (our latest Kick-About prompt) is how ‘meta’ this painting is, in so much as it is a painting about painting. Las Meninas deconstructs itself… Read more
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The Kick-About #72 ‘Les Meninas’
The last edition of The Kick-About featured the works of Christo and Jeanne-Claude, artists celebrated for shrouding familiar things by which to re-vivify their significance. This week, our collective creative muse is Diego Velázquez’s Las… Read more
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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
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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
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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
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