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Some extraordinary ceilings from my 1997 student trip to Istanbul. I’m sorry to say I do not remember where I was specifically when I took these images, but my reason for taking them is obvious. Just look at them!
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Final set of Mainie Jellett-inspired iterations for The Kick-About No.101.
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A couple more pieces produced for The Kick-About #101, with new works inspired by the Irish modernist painter, Mainie Jellett.
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When I was in my final year of my undergraduate degree, we went to Istanbul on a field trip. I remember the experience as being sensorially overwhelming, exhausting in its intensity and visual richness. I also remember laughing so much and so often in the company of my classmates, my face hurt. This image of…
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Another set of alternates produced for this week’s Mainie Jellett-inspired Kick-About. I wasn’t consciously going for Pac-Man at the time, but once seen…
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These digital collages began as physical collages of torn sugar paper to produce textures from which I could cookie-cut other shapes. I wanted to emulate some of the painterly surfaces of Mainie Jellett’s paintings (prompt for The Kick-About No.101) but also some of the formality of her layered shapes. I then went about sub-dividing the…
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Our last Kick-About celebrated our 100th prompt, with new works made in a short time on a theme of that auspicious round number. That’s a lot of new-things-tried and experimentation – much like Mainie Jellett’s exploration of abstraction, which broke away from conventional artistic norms. Phil Cooper “I love the Kick-About for many reasons, it…
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This is a Kick-About #100 bonus feature… As part of my recent KA-inspired transformation into the rather mournful figure of Le Mille-Pattes Humain, I had to create a head-piece out of an existing mask I’d made for The Kick-About No.47 and a whole load of latex rubber gloves. After the photoshoot, the disembodied head reminded…
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This week’s Kick-About was a celebration; our 100th edition, which means 100 creative prompts and 100 ‘new works made in a short time’. For my offering, I began with ‘100 latex gloves’ and ended up playing a strange game of ‘dress-up’, inspired in part by Angela Carter’s Nights At The Circus, by Tod Browning’s Freaks…
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So let me tell you how all of this started… It began with me researching the Hecatoncheires – the hundred-handed giants of Greek mythology. Then, in classic Kick-About style, I leapt at once to acquiring a box of 100 latex gloves. That done, I got thinking about other hundred-limbed things, and arrived at centipedes, and probably because…
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