BRUTE! Exhibition - Prague

I decided, after several requests, to stage an exhibition of my work at a small bar gallery in Prague's famous Mala Strana district.
The owners of Mad Bar (Plaska 5, Praha 5), keen promoters of modern art, suggested I use their restaurant to display my Popaganda-themed work. Instead of using the more intense images for which I've become known, I instead chose a selection of more colourful creations.
This is also the first time I've employed the digital print-to-canvas system and I was very impressed with the results (although it didn't work so well with the black-heavy prints).
The gallery organiser turned out to be useless so Zuzana, my Czech girlfriend and PA, stepped in to organise the prints and help with the installation while I sent out eVites and set up Facebook events to promote the show.
Installation was pretty quick and glitch-free thanks to a fluid hanging system employed by the architects to protect the heritage building.
A last minute problem with the burning of the showreel led to me missing Gilbert Shelton and Robert Crumb's talk at the Lanterna across the bridge from the exhibition but there was a healthy turn-out for the event with several skate decks and canvases sold.

Show ends July 13th

NEW BRUTE! shop opens for business!

After a few months of prevarication, I finally came up with a short list of posters and opened the BRUTE! shop from which to sell them. Check them out at:
http://www.bruteprop.com/v3/shop_index.htm

Buffbusters Straight-to-DVD trailer.

We originally made this promo for Future Shorts
but, when they decided not to go with the comedic
excitement angle and opt instead for boring talking
heads, we edited it down for our own purposes.

Special thanks to Zoran Kovacevic as Dr.
Sinister, Rory Wilmer as my screen buddy, our DoP,
Trevor McDonald and those builders who let us
use their elevator
Written & directed by Aidan Hughes
(shot on location at the PragueTV Tower,
Zizkov, Prague).

Facebook profile pics

What to do when you're bored? Fuck about with your Facebook profile pics!

ZFK bizcards

A few sketchy ideas for our 2008 film club business cards. I'd often wanted to toy with the elements of what goes into a good business card and then I decided, fuck it, I'll use a magazine-style template instead.

London to Brighton

New poster for ZFK screening of London to Brighton

ZFK cover art

A riff on Rory Wilmer's poster art for ZFK's screeening of Tsotsi/Surfing Soweto.

ZFK: 'If...'

Cover art for the forthcoming ZFK screening of Lyndsay Anderson's 'If...'

ZFK banner art

As one of ZFK's in-house art design team, I was called upon to design posters for the Manhattan Film Festival screenings in Prague this year. These soon became synonymous with the club and were subsequently used for leaflets, stickers and, eventually, banners for the ZFK blogsite.

ZFK Screening Sept. 2007 - the THING

Another poster for the ZFK screening of John Carpenter's the Thing. One of the advantage's of a DVD player is the ability to take a snapshot of any frame of the movie to use as elements of the work instead of having to rely on Google Images etc.

ZFK Screening - Danger: Diabolik

A nice balance of elements: minimal lay-out but with the graphic lettering to add a touch of motion.

ZFK screening - This is England

ZFK showed Shane Meadow's 80's skinhead drama and this is the graphic we used for the posters etc. I think it'd make a great shirt.

ZFK - Black & White night

Poster for the ZFK screening of Equilibrium. The theme of the movie, one man's stand against a totalitarian regime, suits my art style perfectly. I actually think it would be an interesting idea to re-make the film in the style of Renaissance (the animation not the art movement).