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Short Story: Vauxhall Royale (2025)
I like a ghost story at Christmas, and this year is no exception. This time last year it was a dark little tale about a boy and his advent calendar, and the year before that,… Read more
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The Kick-About #147 ‘Saturnalia’
In our last Kick-About, we played with the bright, decorative possibilities of the bauble. This week, things take a livelier turn with Saturnalia—a prompt drawn from an ancient midwinter festival known for its loosened rules,… Read more
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Short Story: The Bauble (2025)
This response to The Kick-About No.146 began with an earworm—the phrase,‘You’re a bauble, Barbara—a toy—nothing more!’ After that, as is the way with stories, it was a matter of figuring out to whom this scrap… Read more
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The Kick-About #146 ‘Bauble’
In our last Kick-About, we explored the calm forms and considered spaces of Barbara Hepworth, thinking about shape, balance, and the quiet language of sculpture. This week, as December arrives, the prompt turns to something… Read more
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After Hepworth (2025)
A very simple thing from me this week for The Kick-About No. 145. I acquired some moulds for chocolate Easter eggs – a large one and a small one. I filled one half of the… Read more
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The Kick-About #145 ‘Barbara Hepworth’
In our last Kick-About, we channelled the wild colour and restless energy of the Fauves. This week, our focus turns to Barbara Hepworth—an artist of form, balance, and quiet intent. Her sculptures, with their open… Read more
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Super Jumbo Colouring Book (2025)
This idea for The Kick-About No. 144 began with that criticism often levelled at expressive, Modern paintings etc… the one that goes, ‘My four year old could do better than that!’ I imagine similar comments… Read more
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The Kick-About #144 ‘Donatello Among the Wild Beasts’
In our last Kick-About, we found ourselves in the world of Diane Arbus, drawn to her quiet intensity and the way she revealed strangeness within the familiar. This time, our prompt looks to a very… Read more
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Squeeze Gut (2025)
In addition to Diane Arbus’s richly unsettling ‘Halloween’ images—our prompt for The Kick-About No.143—I’m channelling Nicolas Roeg’s classic film, Don’t Look Now (1973) in these photographs. I enlisted the help of a friend’s 10 year… Read more
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The Kick-About #143 ‘Diane Arbus’
In our last Kick-About, Arcimboldo’s Vertumnus invited us to see identity reshaped through the shifting forms of nature. Now, as autumn deepens and the light grows thinner, our focus turns to Diane Arbus—an artist who… Read more
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