• The Kick-About #38 ‘White Alga On Orange & Red’

    Our last Kick-About together introduced me to an artist I didn’t know, Peter Mungkuri, whose monochromatic and illustrative paintings simplified plant forms in feathery marks and concentric circles. This week it’s Matisse, an artist with… Read more

  • ‘Bird Eyes View’ / Fundus in Tangible Territory Journal Vol 1. Issue 3

    Artist Tereza Stehlikova’s Tangible Territory is ‘a platform that offers a space for various voices to meet and discuss themes relating to the role of the body, the importance of place and embodied experience, in… Read more

  • Fundus @ Motus Imago / Showcase of Shapes, Puppets & Moving Things

    Fundus was a collaboration between myself and Deanna Crisbacher, a short abstract film comprising images I’d produced for The Kick-About No. 30. Fundus has been selected for Motus Imago, a new film festival going by… Read more

  • Throwback Friday #76 Whitstable Kite (2013)

    As the sun slinks lower and the evenings start earlier, I’m contemplating the prospect of winter with a touch of melancholy. Back in the high Summer of 2013, my friends and family paid Whitstable a… Read more

  • Throwback Friday #75 Glint (2003/4?)

    Another song, written years ago, the tune for which I’ve long since lost, likewise the chords, though when I read these words, the ghost of a melody is playing in some other small room of… Read more

  • Seed Heads (After Mungkuri) #2 (2021)

    Inspired by the paintings of Aboriginal artist, Peter Mungkuri, whose work was the subject of this week’s Kick-About, I returned to this Menken-inspired technique to produced some pared down impressions of desiccated seed heads and… Read more

  • Seed Heads (After Mungkuri) (2021)

    onochromatic plant forms’ was the start for me, in response to Peter Mungkuri’s 2019 painting. Punu Ngura, the latest prompt for The Kick-About No.37. I was curious to see how ‘slightly’ I could depict my… Read more

  • The Kick-About #37 ‘Punu Ngura’

    As a bit of a gardener myself, I am endlessly enthralled by the sheer variety of plants and their various habits and habitats: our previous Kick-About featured a uniquely rare blossom, and this week, it… Read more

  • Throwback Friday #74 After Metropolis (2020)

    Something from the not-so distant past this week: a moody-looking scrap from the work I produced in response to one of our earliest Kick-Abouts, taking Fritz Lang’s Metropolis as its muse. These images resulted from… Read more

  • Throwback Friday #73 Staircase (2016)

    Another spooky little something from my one long night in the Summer of 2016, spent within the palatial environs of No. 351. I enjoy the cinema of this particular image; you can almost imagine the… Read more

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