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  • Self-Portraits 3 (2025)

    A final set of alternate photographs produced for the self-portrait-themed edition of The Kick-About – still channelling Count Orlok and there’s something here too that reminds me of the robot on the album cover for… Read more

  • Self-Portraits 2 (2025)

    The last edition of The Kick-About was prompted by the idea of ‘self-portraits’. I gave myself ninety-minutes (and some silver face paint) to play some games with the textures of my fifty-year old face. I… Read more

  • Self-portraits 1 (2025)

    I went to see Robert Egger’s Nosferatu a few weeks ago; I think it must be living in imagination still! In approaching these self-portraits for The Kick-About No.124, I was also thinking of backstage photographs… Read more

  • The Kick-About #124 ‘Self-portrait’

    For this week’s Kick-About, we turn inward from the bold, expressive landscapes of Wu Guanzhong, to the theme of self-portraiture. Whether literal or abstract, introspective or outward-facing, self-portraiture allows us to reflect on who we… Read more

  • Thornham Reeds, December (2024)

    I went to the windswept wilds of the North Norfolk coast for the New Year, and on our way to the dunes, we passed these extraordinary fields of reeds. We watched, as the wind set… Read more

  • The Kick-About #123 ‘Wu Guanzhong’

    The Kick-About No.122 invited us to explore the modular, playful spirit of Joaquín Torres-García. This week, we draw inspiration from Wu Guanzhong, who fuses Chinese ink traditions with Western abstraction. Enjoy this latest selection of… Read more

  • After Torres-García (2024)

    I was very taken by Joaquín Torres-García’s toys—his kits or components—and that sense of these lovely, tactile ‘building-blocks’ being arranged and re-arranged. I made my ‘toys’ for The Kick-About No. 122 by making quick moulds… Read more

  • The Kick-About #122 ‘Joaquín Torres-García’

    In our last Kick-About, we explored the theme of ‘Solstice,’ reflecting on the turning of the seasons and the balance of light and dark. Next, we turn to the work of Uruguayan artist Joaquín Torres-García… Read more

  • Patience Kite: A Folk Tale (2024)

    In this, my last post of 2024, I’m announcing the publication of Patience Kite: A Folk Tale—a novel that has lived in my imagination (and in countless drafts and hard-copy, hand-annotated manuscripts) for well over… Read more

  • The Chimera Trilogy (2024)

    A few days back I was happy to announce that I’d published an anthology of short stories—Even the Most Shunned of Things—as a paperback, and that it was a nod to my imminent 50th birthday.… Read more

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