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Phil Gomm
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I'm an artist and writer based in the UK.

A blog: https://reds-kingdom.blog/
A website (more of a filing cabinet really!): https://philgomm.com/
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Filmic japes in an old abandoned house... "5 to beam up"

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#photography #lightdrawing #longexposure #scifi #sciencefiction
January 20, 2026 at 9:59 PM
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Tuinvolk began with Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Delights: pink architecture, nude revellers. Thinking about raves after the music’s stopped, I made this quick, simple film—garden folk greeting the morning

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#shortfilm #experimentalfilm #folkart #ritual #sculpture
January 20, 2026 at 1:27 PM
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I did something I don’t usually do: styled myself as a ‘painter’ and made fast, layered self-portraits using wax crayon, chalk and acrylic

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#art #selfportrait #expressionism #portrait #drawing
January 19, 2026 at 3:24 PM
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Portraits born from a recent Nosferatu screening and backstage photos of actors like Olivier and Gielgud—some silver paint on beard and scalp to exaggerate texture

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#photography #selfportrait #blackandwhite #portrait #art
January 19, 2026 at 11:03 AM
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Fledgling borogroves: little characters I made after The Jabberwocky—Lewis Carroll’s nonsense world, given a small, physical shape.

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#photography #modelmaking #LewisCarroll #diorama #characterdesign #fantasy
A photograph of fledgling 'borogroves' - inspired by Lewis Carroll's poem, The Jabberwocky
January 18, 2026 at 2:12 PM
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Another from Grasses after Lamplough: the breeze turned the scrub into bands of colour and movement, less a photograph, more a wash of paint

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#photography #landscape #nature #impressionism #artphotography #art
A photograph of autumnal grasses and seed heads
January 17, 2026 at 4:39 PM
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After Augustus Osborne Lamplough: scratchy stems and puffs of seed heads

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#photography #stilllife #landscapephotography #artphotography #impressionism #art
An impressionist photograph of autumnal grasses and seedheads
January 17, 2026 at 11:15 AM
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"I found it hiding under my bed..." Another #webcam self-portrait styled after old-fashioned monster movies and other kindertrauma

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#PhantomsFriday #selfportrait #monochrome #photography #monsters #horror
A creepy image of something looking back at you from the gap beneath your bed...
January 16, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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My rubbish webcam in low light does a strange thing: it turns an ordinary self-portrait into someone else entirely - or should that be 'something?'

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#PhantomsFriday #webcam #selfportrait #monochrome #wolfman #photography
A creepy black and white portrait with a hint of wolfman...
January 16, 2026 at 12:04 PM
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The Children of the Night: lo-fi self-portraits made with a #webcam, re-creating the feel of half-seen monsters on a badly tuned black-and-white TV...

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#PhantomsFriday #horror #selfportrait #photography #gothic
A creepy apparition
January 16, 2026 at 9:45 AM
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Furrow: these black-and-white forms ended up reading like contour lines—ink marks on rough paper, then folded

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#abstractart #blackandwhite #drawing #art
January 15, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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Riffing on the stripped down works of Jogen Chowdhury, I inked a circle and square on rough handmade paper, then ‘folded’ them into black-and-white abstractions

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#abstractart #drawing #blackandwhite #art
A black and white drawing evoking geography and geology
January 15, 2026 at 10:48 AM
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Lost in Fields, Part One: Knave’s Ash (June 2020). The very start of a lock-down project, which saw me swooning over this one extraordinary field...

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#photography #landscapephotography #naturephotography #slowcinema #impressionism #shortfilm
Lost In Fields Part One_Knaves Ash (2020)
The first of three short films produced for the Kick-About #6 on a theme of 'A Field Guide To Getting Lost: https://reds-kingdom.blog/category/the-kick-about/ View…
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January 14, 2026 at 8:06 PM
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Another from today's Catkins series: golden tassels against a sky-blue haze; old-fashioned and illustrative.

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#photography #scanography #botany #stilllife #horticulture
A scanographic photograph of hazel catkins
January 14, 2026 at 2:56 PM
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Hazel catkins — an early sign of the new year. I scanned them face-down, laid organza over them (scanner lid 'up', in a dark room), then inverted the scan for these soft, painterly tassels.

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#photography #scanography #botany #stilllife #catkins #Spring
A scanographic photograph of hazel catkins—the earliest sign of Spring
January 14, 2026 at 10:11 AM
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Part 2: Then I carried him out into the garden, where it all got a little bit #Midsommar — no human sacrifices enacted!

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#art #sculpture #folkhorror #vertumnus #garden
A head collaged with leaves and flowers, looking unsettling in a garden.
January 13, 2026 at 7:26 PM
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Part 1: Arcimboldo’s Vertumnus was the original inspiration here. First, I pinned garden leaves and flowers from my #garden onto a polystyrene head...

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#art #sculpture #folkhorror #vertumnus #gardening
A head collaged from garden leaves and flowers, inspired by Arcimboldo's painting, Vertumnus
January 13, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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Seed heads staged as a hushed gallery show—half botanical study, half sci-fi B-movie encounter...

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#photography #stilllife #miniatures #botanical #modelmaking #diorama #sculpture
A black and white diorama in which an interested bystander looks at a 'giant' sculptural papaver somniferum seed pod.
January 13, 2026 at 9:38 AM
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Las Meninas—the painter in the scene, staring right back at us. I crammed reflective surfaces into one corner and photographed the layers of artifice—dusty glass, diffuse speckles, little portals.
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#photography #mirrors #reflections #art #artphotography #reflections
A black and white photographic still life comprising mirrors and orbs
January 12, 2026 at 6:36 PM
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We got to the marshes at Oare, Faversham for the last rays of a late-November afternoon. It was cold, but the light turned coppery-pink as the moon rose. The reeds seemed to glow.

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#photography #landscapephotography #naturephotography #marsh #Kent #impressionism
A photograph of the marshes at Oare at Faversham, Kent
January 12, 2026 at 9:52 AM
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Somewhere An Octopus Is Dreaming—A short film inspired by a sleeping cephalopod—with a nod to Close Encounters of the Third Kind’s finale.

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#octopus #cephalopod #shortfilm #animation #experimentalfilm #film #scifi #CloseEncounters
January 11, 2026 at 5:53 PM
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Ink: a short film made with marker pens + a spritz of alcohol on a ceramic tile. It blooms like a petri dish, then feels like Bikini Atoll test footage

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#timelapse #shortfilm #experimentalfilm #animation #ink #film #art
A still from a short time-lapse film created with ink and alcohol
January 11, 2026 at 9:24 AM
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I made these little ‘astro-monks’ from broken terracotta flowerpots, stitched into robe-like forms—thinking of Michael Landy’s saints, Moebius and the Brothers Quay. Then I photographed them.

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#photography #sculpture #characterdesign #miniatures
A kit-bashed model of a monk or 'space monk'. A kit-bashed model of a monk or 'space monk' A kit-bashed model of a monk or 'space monk'
January 10, 2026 at 7:25 PM
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Table-top colour studies inspired by Carlos Cruz-Diez: layers of light, soft focus, and a mid-century, coloured-pencil vibe—little installations that shift as you look.

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#photography #abstractphotography #opart #tabletopphotography #CruzDiez #art
An impressionist abstract image of a transparent geometric cylinder with fine stripes of translucent colour
January 10, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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Made a daft thing of cardboard feathers, hung it on elastic, and spent an evening pinging it about while the shutter stayed open. Most frames were chaos, but a few came out like a bird half-there, half-remembered.

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#birds #birdphotography #photography #art
A photograph evoking the flight and feathers of a large bird
January 10, 2026 at 9:15 AM