HANTU DESIGNER GEO’S EXHIBITION

As a designer for Hantu Collective, I always pride myself on working hard with my print designs and illustrations. Hantu Collective was built up on having designs do all of the talking first and the label second, I suppose I was always annoyed at looking at certain brands who sell off the back of a name, with no inspiration graphic design or illustration on the garment to warrant paying such a price for it.

This year has been good for me, with plenty of commissioned work coming my way from editorial illustration to wall mural work etc. I decided to set up an exhibition in the heart of Sheffield pulling together some of our finest artistic talent such as Nick Deakin, Lord Bunn, Jonny Wan, Mute and Jane Faram all artists who are residents of Sheffield. I set up Child’s Play, which was a simple loose brief where the artists have to illustrate around the phrase Child’s Play itself.

My pieces were very fun to pull off as they reflect my views of a child’s imagination, the wild aspect of how destructive it can be in its own naive sense. One of my favourite pieces, “The Tinsley Towers” was my own personal play with a local reference to which many Sheffield folk will relate to, it’s also coincidentally a Hantu T-shirt design which we currently stock. Other pieces of work that have been submitted range from short little poems, to photographs and to painted montages of cultural memories.

The show is currently on at The Forum Bar on Devonshire street and runs from the 6th June to the 4th July.

TINSLEY TOWERS DESIGN – BUY IT HERE