“The one thing I've learned about art is there aren’t really mistakes in art, are there?”
Maxim, Fresh from a sell-out UK tour that coincided with the 25th anniversary of the release of the album ‘The Fat of the Land’, The Prodigy front man and talented fine artist, has been with the band since its inception in 1990 and has toured all seven of their studio albums extensively around the world, picking up numerous awards along the way including MTV and NME accolades for recognition of their unique style and innovative music, as well as their chart success with countless hits.
As if heralding the end of the world, The Prodigy slammed and moshed their way into the underground rave scene in 1990 with their aggressively beat-heavy and industrial music. The English dance-core progenitors have sold over 25 million albums, won numerous music awards throughout their career, including two Brit Awards, three MTV
VMAs and two Grammy nominations. The Prodigy's numerous smash singles including "Charly", "Firestarter" and "Smack My Bitch Up" have amassed mainstream popularity through the 1990s and well into the 2000s, on to the multi- platinum selling Invaders Must Die (2009) featuring "Stand Up" and "Omen" featured in the movie Kick Ass.
Their 2015 album “The Day Is My Enemy” gained further success, and debuted at No. 1 in the UK Albums Chart, making it the band's sixth consecutive record to have reached the top of the chart. The band continued to tour relentlessly, headlining festivals around the world throughout 2016, 2017 and 2018. The Prodigy’s seventh studio album “No Tourists” was released in November 2018, to immense international approval and accolades.
He has been a creative artist since 2002, after he was inspired to create some artwork to hand in his home. He soon
realised that he had a real talent for art and has never looked back. Since 2012, he has displayed his mixed media
artworks in various exhibitions across the world. His artistic images have also been used on Fine Bone China crockery
embellished with 24ct gold. MM is well known for his outstanding paintings, sculptures, and ceramics. He often uses a
mixture of sinister and beautiful images, for example, his “LepidopTerror” collection mixed beautiful butterflies with skulls
and deadly weapons.
Just as his musical background has influenced his art, art has in turn fed into his wider creative practise. At the heart of his approach to art is a love and appreciation of freedom. “The one thing I've learned about art is there aren’t really mistakes in art, are there?” MM’s creative process tends to evolve naturally, without too much forward planning. MM prefers to use board as a base, as he enjoys being able to mutilate it and create chaos within the work.
Often his works are finished with resin. He feels this gives a certain beauty and preciseness to the images, keeping them
locked and untouchable behind the resin. He is self-taught and has been known to use many different random objects in
his works, spray paints, bullets, blades, and pills to name a few. He also uses acrylic and ceramic paints, and anything
he can get his hands on that will add to the texture of his work.
The paintings are a journey into MM’s mind and have a surreal edge that take you somewhere deep into his imagination. Certain pieces show rebellion, and the rise of the underdog and the weak. The butterflies all display a side of strength regardless of the situation. All of MM’s paintings contain signs of strength and positivity while putting a “spin on things” and seeing them from different angles. Grenades carried on the breeze by a raft of red balloons; skull-faced butterflies brandishing Samurai swords, and gun-toting cats are just a few of the surreal fantasy worlds created by MM.
around the world).