Lockhart River Art

Language: Umpila

DOB: 29/01/1977

Patrick Butcher 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."

Collections: Queensland Art Gallery, Wollongong University Collection, National Gallery of Victoria

Patricks paintings are available through: Emerge Art Space, Perth; Alcaston Art Gallery, Melbourne; KickArts Contemporary Gallery, Cairns;  Booker-Lowe Gallery, Houston, Texas; and his prints are available through Freemantle Arts Centre, WA.

Following works from Patrick Butcher (clockwise) are:

"Yiiyal..Shower rain drizzle"; "No Shame, More Pride" (detail); "Complicity"; "Rainforest Country". All works are acrylic on Belgian linen.