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August 5, 2021

Artist-in-Residence: Tom Beg #10

In between his various creative endeavours triggered by The Kick-About, and his day job designing and delivering the curricula for his English classes, Japan-based creative and Red’s Kingdom artist-in-residence, Tom Beg has continued work on… Read more
August 4, 2021

Tin Toy #1 (2021)

I was struck by the folksy, pop-culture qualities of Herzog’s dancing chicken – our prompt for The Kick-About No. 33 – and I was keen to investigate the movement of these performing animals too. The… Read more
August 3, 2021

The Kick-About #33 ‘Herzog’s Dancing Chicken’

After the epic, panoramic, and impressionist works riffing on Rutenberg’s Low Dense, I’m delighted to present an all-new showcase of work inspired by the improbable, homespun spectacle of Werner Herzog’s dancing chicken. (That’s not a… Read more
August 2, 2021

Church Plantation #2 (2021)

Another set of preposterously colourful photographs from the echium field at Church Plantation; like something from the seabed of a storybook. Read more
July 30, 2021

Throwback Friday #66 Shellness #1 (2009)

Summer, 2009: a day trip to Shellness, on the Isle of Sheppey, noted around these parts for its nudist beach, but what I enjoyed about our visit was the beach’s silence and its strangeness. Another… Read more
July 29, 2021

Church Plantation #1 (2021)

A few evening’s back, we went out to Sheldwich to see the field known as Church Plantation, with its dazzling crop of echiums. We weren’t the only people drawn to the improbable spectacle of blue,… Read more
July 28, 2021

After Rutenberg #4 (2021)

A final set of painterly abstracts produced in response to the Kick-About No.32 and the expansive landscape paintings of American artist, Brian Rutenberg. Read more
July 26, 2021

After Rutenberg #3 (2021)

Another quartet of Rutenberg-inspired abstract photographs, inspired by the Kick-About No.32. Once again, the images are the result of first fabricating and painting some cardboard maquettes, which were then used as ‘Lego bricks’ to produce… Read more
July 24, 2021

When I Was A Boy, I Collected Pebbles From The Beach @ Nature & Culture – Poetry Film Festival 2021

A bit of good news re. the Kick-About-inspired short film, When I Was A Boy, I Collected Pebbles From The Beach; it has just made the official selection for the Nature & Culture – Poetry… Read more
July 23, 2021

Throwback Friday #65 Still Life (1993)

What with the influence of the Kick-About No.32, things have been rather abstracted on here of late, so I was minded to share these twenty-eight year old paintings for today’s retrospective post. They date from… Read more