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On Saturday 4th August, Whitstable hosted its annual carnival, an eclectic and innately peculiar pageant that always fires my imagination, haunted as I am by The Wicker Man. This year, I wrapped my camera lens in a few layers of yellow cellophane and lengthened the exposure for something softened and stranger and more nostalgic.
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A final set of images produced for The Kick-About No.85; photographs of two small monkish figures fashioned from the remains of broken terracotta flower pots. There’s a bit of science-fiction in the mix here… infant space popes!
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Bringing it all together in one post for your listening pleasure… presenting the complete audio book adaptation of Chimera Book 1
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Chimera is my children’s book about a world of lost things – and the final episode in the audio adaptation has itself been ‘lost’, vanished by more humdrum stuff and a million less thrilling things. That said, the day has arrived at last, and I’m very happy to announce that Chimera Book 1 is now…
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Inspired by Michael Landy’s saints, comprised as they are from broken bits and fragments, a second set of images produced for The Kick-About No.85. Assembled from shards of terracotta flower pots, I was going for something silent-seeming and monastic, but likewise inspired by the gliding, unheimlich tailors from The Brother’s Quay animation, Street Of Crocodiles.
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So lots going on here in my response to The Kick-About No.85 and the work of artist Michael Landy. I went with ‘fragments and saints’ as my starter-for-ten, and then looked around for the sort of broken stuff I had about the place in abundance. We’ve got piles of smashed terracotta flower pots in the…
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Our last Kick-About together featured Murano glass as its muse, which included a work by Francesca Maxwell, in which some formerly broken pieces of artful glass were fused together to make a new and satisfying whole. Inspired by the artist, Michael Landy, this latest showcase of new works made in a short time is likewise…
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As course leader for an undergraduate programme at the University for the Creative Arts, Rochester, I cherished many things about my role, certainly all the great and obvious stuff about enlivening the imaginations of young people and doing a decent day’s work in a location characterised by high levels of diversity and low self-esteem.
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A strange and simple portal manifested in the night from the summer of 2015.
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A final collection of Murano glass-inspired orbs produced for The Kick-About No.84. They began life as moving image and there’s certainly a weird little film to be made at some point. I’ll add it to the list.
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