Vector Meldrew

Artwork

2006 — ongoing

Medium
Record sleeves, moving image, computer-generated 3D, live visuals, generative systems
Materials
Photoshop and Illustrator, After Effects, Cinema 4D and Redshift, Houdini, TouchDesigner, diffusion and video models
Auction
Pure Energy, 2021 — Bonhams, London
Exhibited
London · Shenzhen · Beijing
Made with
Tinie Tempah · Eclectic Method · Addison Groove · Sassan Behnam-Bakhtiar · Sabet

The artifacts that fall out of the built rooms. Twenty-five years of image-making — record sleeves and flyers, moving image and music video, GPU-rendered 3D, live visuals, and now generative systems. The same signal, caught on different machines each time.

Physical · four works

Sculpture & painting

Objects that exist in a room. Sculptures fabricated with movi_808.

Undress Code — sculpture, 2023
Undress CodeSculpture · SLS nylon and PU resin · 2023 · Fabricated with movi_808
Capstone — Chrome, sculpture, 2023
Capstone — ChromeSculpture · Cast polyester resin with aluminium powder · 2023 · Fabricated with movi_808
Capstone — Iron, sculpture, 2023
Capstone — IronSculpture · Cast polyester resin with iron powder · 2023 · Fabricated with movi_808
Logos 001 — painting, 2016
Logos 001Painting on canvas · 2016 · 120 × 100 cm

Digital · computer-generated

Screens

Computer-generated 3D, moving image and generative work.

“Meldrew’s anonymous hooded figures in shimmering tracksuits accompanied Tempah’s monumental golden face in the resulting retro-futuristic NFT — mark how far he has come from documenting London’s grime scene through pirate radio stations and websites as a teenager.” The Art Newspaper, on Pure [Grift] Energy

Pure [Grift] EnergyWith Tinie Tempah & Sassan Behnam-Bakhtiar · 2021 · Auctioned at Bonhams
Unknown RealmsSuperRare · 2022
Cult Meditation TapeWith Eclectic Method · 2022 · also released in 360°/VR
ChangaAddison Groove remix of "Soul Makossa" · 2017
528 HzSuperRare · 2022
A Trip to the DentistSuperRare · 2021
Hold PleaseSuperRare · 2021
Radical TransformationNifty Gateway · 2022
Nobody Said It Would Be FunNifty Gateway · 2022
Mental BreakthroughNifty Gateway · 2022
Trash Art2022
Interdimensional Twerk2021
Preparation for Interdimensional Transition2021
Untitled[year] — title/year/platform needed

Further moving image, live visuals and generative work — including collaborations with Eclectic Method and Sabet — available on request.

Print · record sleeves & flyers

Print

Sleeves, flyers and printed work — the visual identity of the music, from the same years as the forum.

2562 — Unbalance, record sleeve
2562 — UnbalanceRecord sleeve · Tectonic
Komonazmuk — Underground, record sleeve for Hench
Komonazmuk — UndergroundRecord sleeve · Hench
DMZ, Tectonic and Dub War lineup poster, credited to vectormeldrew.com
DMZ / Tectonic — Bristol lineup posterPrint · Mala, Loefah, Coki, Pinch, Breakage & more
Subloaded IV Dubstep All-Nighter flyer, The Black Swan, Bristol
Subloaded IV — Dubstep All-NighterFlyer · The Black Swan, Bristol · 2006
Subloaded Sixth Birthday poster, Motion, Bristol
Subloaded — Sixth BirthdayPoster · Motion, Bristol
Trouble Tune, London Jazz Festival in association with BBC Radio 3, Southbank Centre
Trouble TunePoster · London Jazz Festival × BBC Radio 3, Southbank Centre · 2009
Changa, Addison Groove remix of Soul Makossa, single artwork
ChangaSingle artwork · Addison Groove · 2017
AR paste-up, Shoreditch, London, 2021 — QR-triggered augmented reality figure
Untitled (AR paste-up)Paste-up, sticker & augmented reality · Shoreditch, London · 2021

The Shoreditch paste-up campaign was featured by Shoreditch Street Art Tours, April 2021.

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