• The Kick-About / A Second Year Later

    I’m not above admitting that, just sometimes, I’ve thought to myself “Not another Kick-About?” Sometimes, it has felt as if my brain is too old or too stupid or simply too preoccupied with other more… Read more

  • The Kick-About #52 ‘104.286’

    Welcome to this anniversary edition of the Kick-About, marking two years of creative activity undertaken by an international community of artists… which, when you put it like that sounds very impressive indeed! While those of… Read more

  • Throwback Friday #103 Potsdamer Platz, Berlin (2008)

    Impressionistic stuff from a wet, cold February evening at Potsdammer Platz back in 2008, making the most of all the neon and the glossy pavements. Read more

  • Throwback Friday #102 Plexus Earlies (2017)

    A few of the ‘earlies’ from my all-nighter in the old dark house, back in the summer of 2017, when I was first learning how to raise spectres from the those tired, tiled floors. Read more

  • Kindergarten (2022)

    There are images that capture ‘perfectly’ the awfulness of conflict, and this photograph of a shelled Ukrainian kindergarden achieves just that. The juxtaposition of the colourful toys with the white blasted bricks needs no further… Read more

  • The Kick-About #51 ‘Maria Prymachenko’

    Following the linear, pared-back abstractions of our last Kick-About together, the folk art of Ukrainian artist Maria Prymachenko inspires our fifty-first showcase of new works made in a short time. Art, and the making of… Read more

  • Throwback Friday #101 An Off Cut 2 (2017)

    When you’re scrambling about in an old dark house trying to produce phantasmagorical effects on film using various Heath Robinson-style contraptions comprising light-sources and black elastic, not everything goes according to plan. My various hard… Read more

  • Linear Construction #4 (2022)

    The last scraps… Read more

  • Linear Construction #3 (2022)

    Another set of experiments produced in the wake of The Kick-About No.50. Read more

  • Throwback Friday #100 Summer Shoes (2016)

    You know how it is: you’ve got this pair of perfect shoes you’ve already worn to death and are fraying into oblivion, and yet you nonetheless find a way to keep wearing them. They’re not… Read more

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