Short mini-documentary on the BRUTE! Popaganda show in Prague this month. Film maker Rory Wilmer and I spent the day walking and drinking along the river Vltava and discussing my work. Also contains scenes from the opening of the show at Mad Bar which features a short speech by yours truly on Popaganda reproduction.
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
Poster for my forthcoming show at Mad Bar, Malo Strana, Prague (from June 11-July 13)
More rough helmet 
designs for Bimmerworld racing team.
I first built a basic helmet shape in 3D (Poser 4) and then textured them with the artwork, taking snaps of the front, back, sides and top plus a three-quarter profile. Finally, in Photoshop, I cut and pasted them over the helmet line-art and photos supplied by the company.
Keep posted to see the final design evolve.
Too few times in an artist’s life will come clients offering him creative control over their content.
And so it was with now-defunct Kurator, whose art director seemed happy enough with my work until last month when they went suspiciously quiet and refused to answer my emails.
A quick scan of the web reveals no such magazine. Ah well.
Its a bitch of a time to be starting up such endeavors and my condolences go to the staff of yet another deceased monthly art and design title.
UPDATE: I spoke with the editor of the mag who informs me that they will be back in business in the next couple of months once they sort out their advertisers.
Here’s the first of two covers I did for Kiev-based Kurator magazine.
Ink Originals from the featured cover will shortly be available from this blog.
http://vectips.com/tips/interview-with-artist-aidan-hughes/
An interview I did with Vectips, a site specifically featuring the work of vector-based artists and illustrators.
An album cover design I did for the celebrated MC5 guitarist, Wayne Kramer.
I was living in London’s Notting Hill area and his record company was at the bottom of my street. Somehow, I managed to wangle my portfolio into their offices and this is the ensuing art.
Another element from the Tohuvabohu art file.
This is the original ink art that was scanned in to complete the album cover.
Hand-drawn with brush-pen and rapidograph, this 5”x7” illustration was the definitive final version before I traced it in Illustrator and coloured it.
I am now proud to present it for sale, price 275 euros (incudes shipping and handling). Contact: bruteprop@gmail.com
(If unsold in three weeks, I will then put it up for auction on eBay).
Kafka Cafe
Old Man
Hitman
Cones
Another assortment of original ink sketches, roughs and composites for various art projects completed in 2008.
As usual, to purchase any of these illustrations, please either leave your request in the ‘comments’ box below or contact me at bruteprop@gmail.com