Mornington Community Art Space - Rupert Brown

Next date: Thursday, 11 December 2025 | 07:00 PM to Tuesday, 20 January 2026 | 11:00 AM

Feature Image: Mondiale Starchaser (deleted scenes), Printed Poster, 42cm x 59.4cm, 2024

Exhibition Title: Amazing Aerospace II

Tuesday 9 December 2025 – to Tuesday 20 January 2026

Artist Statement:

Amazing Aerospace - our lived experienced of air travel is influenced to a great extent by the aircraft that fly us to our destinations. Today we have squashy seats, small TVs, a wandering drinks trolley and funny smelling toilets. However, the aircraft are still marvels of engineering and putting technology aside, every aircraft that flies has overcome industrial and political hurdles against countless stop-go decisions.

So many great aircraft designs never leave the drawing board and yet if they had, our experience of air travel today could be very different. Amazing Aerospace explores what these differences might be. It reimagines some of the great aircraft concepts of the past and looks into the future to see what technology we will need to go further.

Bio:

Rupert Brown is a professional engineer and systems engineering and product management specialist. His career includes working on some amazing space and aerospace projects. He has had several papers published in journals and delivered numerous conference presentations. At the same time Rupert has always actively created art in some form. In the last few years Rupert’s practice has focussed on poster series – a number related images with common themes. Rupert thinks of the Amazing Aerospace series as vintage travel posters from an alternative past and the future. The Amazing Aerospace series starts at the great airships and finishes with the last faster-than-light ships.

The Amazing Aerospace works start life as pencil drawings. From those, detailed plans are created using tools like CorelDraw and Inkscape. Rupert translates those plans into 3D models using Blender, and the final images are composed in and rendered from Blender and finished in GIMP or Inkscape. To help make the designs more compelling, Rupert writes a short story for each one exploring how real people might engage with the aircraft.

“Amazing Aerospace” can be viewed at www.rupert-design.com and the stories at www.rupert-writing.com