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
Category Archives: ZFK
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We originally made this promo for Future Shorts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.