The surreal experimental sounds of the muscial genius Don Van Vliet AKA Captain Beefheart, and his Magic Band have been brought to colourful life through the paintings and drawings by Aoife Milson in her exhibition Trout Mask Replica – Replica opening at Kind Of Gallery this Thursday night.
Listening soley to the music of Beefheart while she worked, and titled in homage to his epic album ‘Trout Mask Replica’, Milson’s artworks encapsulate the inspirational conversation between two creatives.

She has visualised the fusion of jazz, blues and psychedelia of Beefheart’s music through weird and compelling images in ‘a reaction to Beefheart in all his Glory’ – like this…

The exhibition delivers a very personal insight into the relationship between two artists and how two mediums can become indelibly linked as one inspires the other.