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Ted Kotcheff’s 1971 film Wake In Fright is one of my favourite things. Here’s why.
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A few final scraps from The Kick-About #48; I tried starting from a different drawing of a different house plant – a fishbone cactus – but didn’t enjoy these outcomes as fulsomely. Still, they got my print and textile muscle a-twitching nonetheless.
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Taken one damp, misty morning on the beach; an instance where the camera’s struggle to arrest the detail of a moving subject produces a more apposite expression of the subject.
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A few more Louise Baldwin-inspired abstracts produced for The Kick-About #48 – variations on the same original sketch of one of those elegant Flying Saucer Plants. Not much guiding these, just trying to generate as much exuberance as possible.
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What a joyful Kick-About prompt this was (and a welcome palate cleanser after the severed heads of recent days). Textile artist Louise Baldwin’s work gave me permission to draw quickly and instinctively, and embrace colour and abstraction, to produce a whole series of exuberant large-scale compositions. I just sat down and drew a few impressions…
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If the last Kick-About got us circling around ideas of different pieces and the ties that bind them, this week’s showcase, inspired by the free-associating permissions of Lousie Baldwin’s contemporary textiles, is an offering no less preoccupied with fragments, layers, and bits. Enjoy this latest collection of ‘new works made in a short time’, in…
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You can thank John Stezaker’s hybrid portraits for the recent outbreak of severed sightless heads popping up on my blog over recent days, but another bit of the Kick-About #47 prompt was the specific title of Stezaker’s photographic collages – Marriage.
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For this week’s rummage through the archives of ‘stuff wot I’ve done’, it’s an airing for another of those sad little songs written all the way back in the early-mid 2000s, when I was licking wounds of one sort or another. I can just about recall the melody for the chorus (a few lines of…
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And you thought finding a spider in the bathtub was unpleasant. A few more unheimlich japes, courtesy of the Kick-About No.47, a balaclava, and a pair or two of flesh-coloured nylon tights…
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ay, another collection of disembodied heads arranged just-so on my living room sofa, all for the purposes of producing some John Stezaker-inspired photographs for the Kick-About No.47, and all in the name in art. Our small front room (where these pictures were taken) is dominated by a large bay window – a veritable goldfish bowl…
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