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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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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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