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Our last Kick-About was inspired by the Irish modernist Mainie Jellett. This week’s prompt, Raoul Hausmann’s Mechanical Head, finds thematic resonance with Jellett’s abstract paintings by exploring the disintegration of traditional forms and the reimagining of human identity in the modern age. Enjoy this latest showcase of ‘new works made in a short time’. To…
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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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