Art:
2022 Australian Street Art Awards “Best Rural Art” – Bronze Winner for “The Golden Clydesdale”
Street art as rural hero…Painted on the old stone wall of the historic Coobowie Hotel, in the rural heartland of the Yorke Peninsula, this Dylan Butler Artist mural highlights the town’s former reliance on working horses. There’s a golden dray wheel that’s cleverly positioned to catch the last light of the day while the Clydesdale has been painted in a ‘translucent’ style to give it a vintage appearance.Such unusual visual trickery caught our judges’ eyes too, and this golden beauty is now up for a golden gong having been named as a FINALIST. Winners announced in less than a fortnight – on Friday night, 10 February!
– Australian Street Art Awards
Painting & Decorating:
Over 10 years spent as a Painter & Decorator in South Australia, I was lucky enough to be consistently surrounded by passionate, award winning trades people. The first four years of my apprenticeship started this positive trend. I was lucky to be well taught by my father, a well decorated painter, having won South Australian and National Painting and Building Association Awards; and every apprentice under his guidance has won an award from The Master Painters Association of South Australia, or TAFE SA. I was lucky enough to win awards in both. My current credentials include:
TAFE SA Most Outstanding Student: Runner-up 2013 – Winner 2014
Master Painters Association of South Australia Apprentice of the Year – Winner 2014
Post apprenticeship I moved to Adelaide. I am proud to say I worked for South Australia’s top two most Award-Winning Companies. Derek Wales & Son Painting & Decorating, and Johnathon Luby Painters. Continuing to surrounded myself by award-winning tradespeople in the ‘big city’ was an invaluable experience. I was exposed to a completely different realm of the trade at an elite level, and learnt so much more.
Dylan Butler 