Screen-printed gigposter : Belle & Sebastian – Luke Drozd
Luke was a firm favourite of The Stick Up team…
…we even said so in our poster-maker profile last year when we launched. A happy go lucky fellow who had achieved a great deal by 2013, most notably a great body of work, a catalogue of exhibitions and the nod of recognition and respect (though not necessarily fondness) from all his peers and contemporaries.
It is with a slight sadness, that we must report, that the whole of his life, till we last saw him certainly, was tainted by a poignant fear of death –
– and it still is! which is why wrote that like a little obituary column.
He is not a firm favourite of ours, but a stiff one – stiff not with death, but stiff with vigour and what some might fear is an unrelenting energy. Luke is to art, what a leg-humping fox terrier pup is to a pair of chinos. Go go go you mucky devil.
Look for clean and structured penmanship skills – characters, scenes and script all rendered with an apparent ease that surely comes from a life spent dissecting Topper, Dandy and Rupert The Bear annuals (though the themes are sometimes from quite a different shelf, below the counter).
Screen-printed gigposter : Josh Ritter – Luke Drozd
*R.I.P. (rapt in plastacine)
Click here for Luke’s site
Click here to find more of this year’s Stick Up gig-poster artists
Or read what we wrote about Luke in 2013
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