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Throwback Friday #57 The Ossuary, Hythe (2013)
Something macabre for this Friday’s blast-from-the-past, with a series of photographs taken in The Ossuary at St Leonard’s Church, in Hythe. It takes an effort of imagination to look at these collected skulls and keep… Read more
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When I Was A Boy_Pebbles (2021)
When I Was A Boy, I Collected Pebbles From The Beach was inspired by what can be disappointing about the way wet pebbles plucked from the beach may underwhelm when they’re dry again. It seemed… Read more
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Film: When I Was A Boy, I Collected Pebbles From The Beach (2021)
Inspired by Howard Sooley’s meditative film, Prospect Cottage, the prompt for the Kick-About No.28, When I Was A Boy, I Collected Pebbles From The Beach began with a simple enough observation. Living by the sea… Read more
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The Kick-About #28 ‘Prospect Cottage’
Our last Kick-About prompt was a painting by Giorgio de Chirico, an artist whose work is characterised by emptied vistas and other-worldly spaces. Inspired by Howard Sooley’s short film, this week’s showcase of new work… Read more
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Throwback Friday #56 Mount Ephraim (2009)
Mount Ephraim is a family-own estate set into ten acres of landscaped gardens. We’ve visited there many times, and these photographs date from one particularly perfect late summer afternoon in 2009. The light was hazy… Read more
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Quite Normal @ Ramsgate 5th International Film & TV Festival
Just got word today of the official programme listings for the 2021 Ramsgate 5th International Film & TV Festival, where the Kick-About-inspired short film Quite Normal is showing in the Short Experimental slot. That’s an… Read more
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Throwback Friday #55 Calendulas Anonymous
Not sure where or when these were taken, but who can can resist the simple charms of the marigold? Not me. Read more
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De Chirico’s Tick (2021)
The fascinating thing about taking part in The Kick-About is the way in which it commits you to creative activities you couldn’t have predicted – as was the case recently when I ended up squeezed… Read more
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The Kick-About #27 ‘The Song Of Love’
The Kick-About No.26 – our one year birthday bash – was, at first glance, a collection of disparate things brought together into a single composition. In actual fact, however diverse, the work in the last… Read more
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Throwback Friday #54 The Island (2009)
These photographs were taken in the last moments of sunset on the Isle of Sheppey all the way back in the Summer of 2009. I remember clearly the very particular atmosphere of the place as… Read more
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