{"id":3735,"date":"2021-07-12T16:29:54","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T15:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/?p=3735"},"modified":"2021-08-04T10:14:28","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T09:14:28","slug":"25-years-of-hospital-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trickartt.com\/notes\/2021\/07\/25-years-of-hospital-art\/","title":{"rendered":"25 Years of Hospital Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019ve never really thought of Hospital as the establishment, but having been a going concern for a quarter of a decade now, it suddenly seems pretty well-settled in the musical landscape. For one of the many facets of this anniversary, Hospital organised a virtual art exhibition<\/a> with our old friends at Art Vinyl<\/a>, makers of nifty \u2018Play and Display\u2019 record cover frames<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The virtual nature obviously makes it pandemic-friendly (I still haven\u2019t got my second vaccine yet!), so after a couple of false starts and venue changes, Chris at Hospital and the Art Vinyl guys got set up in Defected Records\u2019 basement event space.<\/p>\n

Chris and I had to pick fifty covers, which seems like a lot, but was pretty difficult considering Hospital\u2019s catalogue is closer to 450 now, and that doesn\u2019t even include the not-quite-100 on Med School<\/a> as well. We filtered it down to albums that came out on vinyl only, and began whittling down to our favourites from there.<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s more than just the record covers in the exhibition though – there are a selection of some of the original pieces of art I made for the covers dotted around, as well as many other bonus features. And! Chris and I also wrote a little commentary about some of our particular favourites in the exhibition.<\/p>\n

I’ve been designing covers for Hospital for about fifteen years now, and I’m not sure if I’m proud or terrified when looking at this exhibition!<\/p>\n

On the subject of how I make record covers for Hospital\u2026<\/h3>\n

I also recently revisited the footage of making a pair of EPs for Logistics, from just before the pandemic-era. I\u2019ve edited them into a nice new \u2018How did this happen?\u2019 video, which talks through the inspiration, and how I made the artwork. Check it out below!<\/p>\n