The Kick-About No.156 looks back: each artist selects a favourite from the past year — a pause after 313 weeks of prompts. A quiet stocktake of what this shared practice has become.
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Fledgling borogroves don’t so much ‘mimsy’ as hare-about in sudden bursts of inexplicable excitement, before falling over, exhausted, with their legs in the air...
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The Kick-About is a fortnightly invitation: one prompt, many responses. For No.155, ‘Movers & Shakers’, the cue leans into motion, energy and disruption
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I then set the drosera finger-puppets in motion and made a short film from them, letting that same mix of attraction and menace play out... 3 of 3
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Close-up of knitted, finger-like forms resembling carnivorous sundew plants, set against a vivid purple background. Each soft, greenish “stem” is topped with wiry curling tendrils dotted with small red beads, suggesting sticky droplets poised to catch prey.
I made some drosera finger-puppets - what a "wyrdo"! 2 of 3
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Close-up of hand-made, plant-like finger puppets resembling sundew plants. Knitted green forms rise like stems, each topped with fine curling tendrils dotted with small red beads, evoking sticky droplets. The clustered shapes appear organic and slightly otherworldly against a soft, neutral background.
Drosera — the sundew — glistens like dew but feeds on insects, its sticky drops slowly closing in on whatever they catch. In some folklore it’s even called the “tears of the Virgin” — beauty edged with menace... 1 of 3
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The Kick-About is a fortnightly prompt for a #community of artists, each responding in their own way. For No.154, with Karel Appel as the cue, that meant bold colour, raw mark-making and a shared embrace of instinct and play.
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I used the pangram “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” and animated it as it slowly finds its final form—ideas shifting, dropping away, and settling into what all of us know
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Love this film!
I picked up a cheap clockwork tin toy and let it perform for the camera. Long exposures turned its frantic routines into dreamier-looking imagery
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Inspired by Marie Menken’s Lights (1966), I scratched dotted lines into black-painted glass and photographed it against bright windows and screens. A quick, lo-fi trick turning simple marks into floating strings of colour and light.
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Ruth Asawa’s looping wire forms made me think of Spirograph drawings. With a marker, ruler and sheets of acetate, I built quick cones of cross-hatching and photographed them to coax out that same floating sense of volume.
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As an art student—steeped in B-movies and their rubbery monsters—I started experimenting with nylon and PVA glue to sculpt my own low-budget creatures #MarchMonsterMadness
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Something otherworldly comes pouring down the old steps of the old house on this #PhantomsFriday
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Eyeballing you again - only no actual eyeballs were harmed in the making of this photograph!
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More ‘fundus photography’: an ad-hoc set-up of glass, latex, water and ink, photographed outdoors. The eyes have it, as they say.
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They're marvelling at the seed head of a wild carrot, and frankly, who can blame them?
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Circling back to the way Karl Blossfeldt’s close studies turn plants into sculptures—I built these little ‘stages’ of seed heads and stems and photographed them as grand exhibits
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This is a strange and perfect thing!
Inspired by Saul Bass’s urgent titles for Hitchcock’s Psycho, Vertigogo strips things back to dots, dashes and sliding lines — tension built from almost nothing.
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Mirrors and still water have long been part of folklore about spirit portals and divination — used in scrying to glimpse hidden visions or other realms...
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Lovely!
Another image of a plastic-covered sofa, another non-mountain, but a 'non-mountain' with a Japanese vibe...
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An outsized leather sofa, still swaddled in plastic, becomes an accidental landscape. Different light turned the creases and folds into ridgelines and Alpine illusions — a small act of Romanticism played out in the front room.
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... is kind of you!
Like a graphical illustration, it's so spare and minimalist!
The Kick-About is a fortnightly creative prompt: one shared cue, many interpretations, and an excuse to experiment. For No.152, the theme was ‘finger puppet’...
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The Lenten Rose—with its shy intricate markings, are a garden favourite of mine and black and white brings out their lovely, splashy markings.
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#art #photography #horticulture #monochrome
I loved this movie! Sally Hawkins was brilliant in this - had me shouting at the television. Best horror movie I've seen in a long time (but had to watch some of the 'teeth stuff' through my fingers...)