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For Drummers Only #1 (2022)
My immediate response to The Kick-About No.56 was ‘make a film’, so I set about trying to find a means to visualise Sandy Nelson’s percussive effects. I built some simple 2D shapes in the video-editing… Read more
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The Kick-About #56 ‘For Drummers Only’
There’s something stripped back and uncompromising about the paintings of Basquiat, the prompt for our last Kick-About together. Likewise Sandy Nelson’s For Drummers Only, a 12 minute drum solo from 1962 that has likely had… Read more
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Throwback Friday #111 Groyne, Whitstable (2013)
It’s been a very hot and sunny week in this small coastal town, with no sign of the north-easterly breeze that more usually cuts through the rising temperature. This image from some similar sunny day… Read more
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Throwback Friday #110 Prague (2014)
An abstract little something from a student field trip to Prague in February 2014, tram tracks looking like skeins of silver set into the damp cobbles. This was taken on a long walk one very… Read more
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Self-Portraits (2022)
I took the opportunity of the Basquiat-inspired Kick-About prompt to do something I don’t usually do or identify with particularly, which was to style myself as a ‘painter’, and undertake some expressionist self-portraits. Read more
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The Kick-About #55 ‘Basquiat’
Our last Kick-About together was characterised by a whirl of ingenuity, with our community of artists reaching for ad-hoc materials and digging out old tools by which to produce their ‘new works in a short… Read more
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Throwback Friday #109 Lincoln Center, New York (2014)
Although we went to New York at the very end of 2014 (and very beginning of 2015), and enjoyed a few days of whirling snow, we were also lucky to enjoy blue skies and winter… Read more
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Bird #5 (2022)
A final set of photographs produced in response to the avian whirligig of The Kick-About #54, and in response to some of these later images I began to feel real excitement as to the potential… Read more
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Bird #4 (2022)
More bird-like imagery produced for The Kick-About #54 by photographing a quickly-made cardboard maquette on various long exposures, with the cardboard ‘thing of feathers’ being launched through the air via the ‘ping’ of a length… Read more
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Bird #3 (2022)
A further set of photographs produced in response to The Kick-About #54, which saw me photographing a cardboard bird-form maquette on various long exposures, which I sent whirling about the rooms of my house on… Read more
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