DJ Food And Henry Flint
26th Jan 2012 - 12th Feb 2012
Pure Evil exhibits artwork from DJ Food’s album ‘The Search Engine’ and Henry Flint’s book ‘Broadcast’.
Expect original art, photos, limited edition prints and postcard records, sound installation and more…
DJ Food, aka Strictly Kev, has read the British sci-fi comic 2000ad, home of Judge Dredd, since he was 8 years old. He’s also been collecting original art from it for over a decade and a large proportion of his collection is the work of one man – Henry Flint. Studying at Falmouth University, Henry has worked in comics since the early 90′s – mostly for the anthology title 2000ad but also for US publishers like Marvel, DC and Vertigo. He slowly refined his craft and became a fan favourite with his ultra-detailed storytelling, seemingly able to combine several different styles from the comic’s first golden age in the 80′s alongside his own distinctive pen work. He has drawn many of the comic’s main characters, including Judge Dredd, as well as created his own characters Shakara and Zombo with fellow script writers. One of his latest illustrations graces the cover of a collection of Alan Moore’s short stories, first published in the title in the 80′s.
Upon buying some art from Henry a few years ago, Kev discovered several postcards with crazed characters and abstracts included in the package, promotion for a small local exhibition in Exeter of Henry’s ‘doodles’. The images were exactly what he had been looking for as the starting point for the artwork on a series of EPs he was making, later to form an album on Ninja Tune. Henry sent a stack of images for Kev to pick from and gave him permission to colour them for the artwork, which were issued as foldout poster covers on three 12″ EPs.
By the time the album was ready to be compiled Kev had a solid visual direction and commissioned Henry to draw “a cosmonaut, hanging in space, strapped into an unfeasibly large backpack, the kind you could only wear in zero gravity”. The result became the cover of ‘The Search Engine’. Coupled with press shots of Kev in a replica astronaut suit, shot by photographer Will Cooper-Mitchell, this completed a sci-fi theme with Kev’s colours fleshing out the black and white line drawings. Incidentally, since the start of the collaboration, Henry was approached by a publisher with a view to compiling these drawings into a book, which has just been published under the title ‘Broadcast’ by Aam Markosia.
The exhibition will feature lots of original Flint artwork including drawings and elements used to create most of the artwork surrounding the album as well as comic pages from Kev’s personal collection. Cooper-Mitchell photos will be on display as well and high quality signed giclee prints will be available to buy as well as a limited edition postcard record made specially for the show. Kev’s love of psychedelic art will also be in evidence with typographic mandalas, zoetrope discs and unique splatter vinyl DJ controller records on display to complete the picture. An audio visual installation in the basement, based around the album, will also be present.
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