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The Kick-About #8 ‘Cicada’
Our last Kickabout prompt, based off Sickert’s painting ‘Ennui’, inspired a range of new work by our participating artists on themes of listless, languor and waiting. When you consider the prolonged incubation times of your… Read more
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Knave’s Ash, August – Part 2 (2020)
More photographs from the flaxen, tinder-dry periphery of Knave’s Ash, where layer-upon-layer of fine filaments hold the late afternoon light at their tips and everything is crisp under my flip-flops, but soft on the eye. Read more
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Knave’s Ash, August – Part 1 (2020)
In the knowledge the recent heat and drought must be turning the meadows, hay fields and forgotten scrublands into parched vistas of gold, ochre and rust, I’ve been keen to get out and about with… Read more
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Artist-In-Residence #5 Graeme Daly
It’s time to catch-up with Red’s Kingdom’s artist-in-residence, Graeme Daly, and this time, Graeme and I decided we’d capture our conversation ‘as-it-happened’ and put it out on here accordingly. I began by asking Graeme about… Read more
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Throwback Friday #17 Echinops Anonymous
I don’t remember when I took this photograph of Echinops bannaticus. I don’t know where it was, in which garden. I know why I took it – just look at it, like some explosive, speeding… Read more
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Artist-In-Residence: Emily Clarkson #2
At some point in the middle of the lock-down, Emily Clarkson and I had a heart-to-heart on the phone. We talked about ‘what to do?’ in response to COVID. It was an existential question, and… Read more
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MFT #6 Dr Frank Poole’s Shorts
Dr Frank Poole is a character in Stanley Kubrick’s celebrated, technically-breathtaking think-piece, 2001 – A Space Odyssey (1968). This is a film I admire very much, but one of my favourite things about 2001 are… Read more
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Throwback Friday #16 Plexus (2017)
Another all-nighter in an old grand house, and this time in rooms even more cavernous and derelict than previously, instructing waves of spectral light to rise from dusty floors. Read more
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Artist-In-Residence: Tom Beg #6
I’ve been working hard to make sure all of the creatures have joie de vivre when it comes to their look and movements, and at the same time I’ve tried to make them very robust.… Read more
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Peahen (2020)
haven’t written a new short story in years. I read lots of short stories, and at one time I wrote lots too. The majority of these efforts are now stuck in limbo on 3 inch… Read more
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