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Michael Butler: love

a collage that depicts two male characters sitting on a bench with floral motif surrounds them and a large heart above

Michael Butler
Two Men One Heart (Swing)
, 2007
Collage, pen, pencil, wrapping paper (with varnish) on board
Murray Art Museum Albury collection
Donated 2024

This exhibition brings together key works in collage, drawing, printmaking and assemblage by Michael Butler, focussing on love - an ongoing concern of his work.

The collection of works offers Butler’s view of love as an uncertain condition that exists between violence and bliss. love speaks to its subject as a complex and ever changing presence – at times inducing guilt, fear or melancholia whilst also providing eroticism, joy and romance.

love features collages recently donated to the MAMA collection, alongside works that provide important context to Butler’s practice. The exhibition includes works made by Butler whilst living in Albury in the 1990s.

This exhibition contains imagery and ideas that reference violence and sexuality. It is not recommended for audiences under 18 unless accompanied by a parent or guardian.

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