Patrick Butcher Large  Abstract Painting Australian Aboriginal Indigenous Art.

Titled : Reconcile our Differences

270cm  w x 120cm h

Patricks Unique Abstracts are painted with the palms of his bare hands giving his arworks an incredible texture and style.

Patrick Butcher, born in 1977, is one of the original “Art Gang” members. He is a print maker and painter. Patrick has shown his work in many group shows in Australia and overseas. His work is fresh and vital.

Artist Statement: “I was a member of the Lockhart River Art Gang when they worked mainly at the School. This is a group of young Aboriginal artists from the east coast of Cape York. I have done a bit of work with Batik and lino-printing. Like working with cross hatching techniques. I worked with pottery and done a bit of practice printing shirts at the school. I did art work for the Great Barrier Reef Management Association Project. My paintings were used for pamphlets and postcard invitations for the Message Stick exhibition. I liked making stretchers for canvases. In my spare time I like to go fishing. When it’s high tide, I like to go spear fishing for stingrays and the many species of fish I come across, and diving amongst the rocks off-shore. Usually I like to make spear and find the elders and have a yarn with them about bush tucker and all that.”