Believe Brighton artist Petrusco and he's named after the planet he hails from and is the sole surviving member of the Chip Head Tribe.

He says, since arriving on Earth, he has lived in Israel, the Czech Republic, Austria and, for the past six years, Brighton. He has also toured the Middle East, Cuba, Argentina, Uruguay and Finland on a one-alien mission to, "raise feelings - be they positive or negative" through his art.

Tall stories aside, this much is true - the artist who moonlights as a barman at the Funky Buddha Lounge creates surreal art and was runner-up in the 2006 Your Essence of Brighton and Hove photography competition.

Petrusco's entry included one of the most talked-about images of the year - a naked woman with a shock of Marge Simpson hair and a pink-haired baby on her hip, striding across West Pier.

His latest exhibition at the North Laine Photography Gallery features stills photographs from his films and is billed as, "one of the most colourful exhibitions of the year".

There are the kissing mummies, a man sitting in a lightning tree and fishing in a forest with a mermaid, and two women with Victorian umbrellas strolling into the sea on a promenade gone wrong. For this exhibition there will also be a new short film whose stars are a girl in a gas mask, some dead fish and a giant fish tank.

In his time on this planet Petrusco has also set up No Budget film productions. He and a man called Dan the Fisherman make films, then dish out the DVDs, with just a request the recipient copies and distributes the film freely. Premieres are usually held at parties in Petrusco's back yard, or at the seafront pub The Fortune of War.

But what did this alien have to say for himself? Not much but he has been enjoying some martial art.

"The most influential technique I've learnt on Earth is that of Ki-Aikido," he says, "which has helped centre my co-ordination whilst acclimatising to gravity. It teaches me positions which enhance happy and vibrant influences."

  • until Wed, May 30, Mon-Sat 10.15am-3.45pm, Sun 11am-3.45pm, free