Harry Hill is a well known television comedian, famous for satirising other

people's television shows and wearing a shirt with big collars. Outside of these achievements, Harry likes to spend his time making strange artworks. His paintings offer further insight into the mindset of a man who has spent the last fifteen years watching television. At once funny, sad and often macabre, Harry's paintings take his well known mad cap view of the world to an entirely new level.

We can almost imagine Harry Hill's paintings as a stream of consciousness out-pourings. They are the sickly sweet dreams and nightmares of an alternative version of our media saturated, celebrity obsessed world, made by someone who actually inhabits that world. The works are full of D.I.Y symbolism, visual puns and kooky combinations. The right person in the wrong time zone, animals with extraordinary tales to tell and most recently, well known faces, painted onto coconuts. In art terms, all these disparate elements should by no means be placed together in a painting. It's breaking all the rules of taste, decency and intellectual credibility. But Harry Hill is not in the art world, he's a comedian, and does not need to worry about what the taste-makers make of his art.

Is after all, only his hobby.

Now Showing at

Gallery Maison Bertaux

Soho, London

Monday – Saturday : 9.30am – 10.00pm      Sunday : 9.30am – 8.00pm

Upstairs Tearoom and Basement Gallery