High Brow or Street Savvy

They say it's impossible to please everyone, especially in the art world... but I just might be able to do it!

Behold!  Both types of commercials!

One for the hip movers and shakers, the taste-makers with the fingers on the pulse of what's cool and what's stool.

And then there's a second commercial for the more refined and discerning art aficionado. The collector with both highly cultured tastes and a massive wad of cash in their pockets ready to shell out for the most important art produced in the Australia since Howard Arkley had a go.

For you're viewing pleasure..

Warning: Do not watch the ad from the category that does not describe you. I can't be held responsible for whatever it might cause.

For the Hip Groovy Set

For the Finer Art Connoisseurs 

Forthcoming Exhibition - 28th June - the press release

Former recipient of the now-defunct Itchiball Prize for Bad Art Ben Butcher once again puts two-dollar-shop paintbrush to hard-rubbish-scavenged canvas in his typically enthusiastic style capturing mundane and glorious moments, weird dreams, and re-imagined barroom anecdotes.

A retired Black Caviar earns some petty cash by acting as a jousting horse at a medieval fair while Ned Kelly sells balloons to kids.

Vladimir Putin joins Ivan The Terrible in throwing dogs and a spare dolphin from the Kremlin tower at Pussy Riot.

Julian Assange and his schoolyard friend Paul Cregan using tractor tyres as an army tank and a stick as a cannon.

Oh, and of course there are unicorns and rainbows.

After selling out his 2013 exhibition at the Old Bar gallery, Butcher has returned with a new collection of works fusing his trademark colour palette and unique perspective in a painstakingly-rendered display of exuberant jouissance. Butcher is a Melbourne musician, photographer, and teacher whose work has been described as 'like Sidney Nolan on acid' and addresses questions like 'what does God do in his spare time?' and “how come Tolstoy spent his whole life looking for the secret of universal happiness while David Walsh managed to find it quite quickly?”

Ben Butcher’s Art Show can be viewed at the upstairs gallery at The Old Bar (74-76 Johnston Street, Fitzroy) for a strictly limited time.

Opens : 6pm, Tuesday 28^th June

Final Day: Saturday 2^nd July

All enquiries, contact Ben

e. long.exposure@gmail.com

p. 0408 762461

w. http://australiasworstartist.blogspot.com.au/

the only thing worse than being talked about...

...is being panned in the media for "having standards"

Ricky French has written about MONA in the Big Issue this week, and has used me.... (ME?!) as a barometer as to how bad he thinks MONA is.

Well, we'll see about that!
(loosely hints at an exhibition yet to be organised, now that I have about 20 new paintings... mumbling off into the distance...)

Some Unsold Paintings

This one Cameron And The Stardust Of Betelgeuse (featuring Cam, Ev and Shags) was passed in unsold from the exhibition.

If you know any wealthy art buyers, or perhaps a curator at a decent art gallery... let them know I can sell them this one.

There are three other paintings currently available for purchase, including a new work "Open Mic Death Match: Michael Vs Andrew"

For more details, please contact my agent.

MY SOLO EXHIBITION!!

Come on down folks!
To the Old Bar, Johnson St, Fitzroy.. all throughout September!

Pretty much every awesome painting I've painted will be on show.

The few that haven't already sold to the high class private collections will be available for sale.

Opens : 6pm -Tuesday 6th September

Runs: until the end of September

more info can be found at this facebook event page