'Elvis_Picasso Pentridge Prison Studios' (2015)

Elvis_Picasso's family company in Australia, Elvis_Picasso Fisheries, which is based in Hervey Bay, Queensland, Australia, have been farming genetically-modified 'Great White Sharks', for a few years, and selling them, at massively inflated priced, to Damian Hirst, the former Art Student of London - and also to some other unscrupulous regular international art dealers.

It was Elvis_Picasso who shocked the art world with his 'A Big Fat Stuffed Dead Halibut in a Glass Tank of Formaldhyde'. At his presentation at the private view he jokingly suggested that there could be a commercial art market for 'Stuffed Fish in Tanks of Formaldehyde' - 'some retrobate pseudo-artists are bound to plagiarise my great work', he concluded. Sure enough, a cleaner at the gallery, the former art student Damian Hirst, saw the opportunity to launch his own career using stuffed fish - 'Great White Sharks' in his case.

Elvis_Picasso (1989)
'A Big Fat Stuffed Dead Halibut in a Glass Cage of Formaldhyde'
Metal and glass fish tank, 54.3% formaldehyde solution, stuffed halibut.
360cm x 120cm x 120cm
Collection of the Dutch Royal Household

Elvis_Picasso's sister Elizabeth Pica-Pitts, a talented deep-sea angler and COE of Elvis-Picasso Fisheries Ltd, set up the scheme of supplying said stuffed 'Great Whites' to the former art-student and others. The vast proceeds (profits) from this enterprise were deposited in the Cayman Islands, Lehmann Brothers Bank by the Director of Financial Services of the ELVIS_PICASSO FOUNDATION, Ms Nat Banksmore, and invested, by some circuitous routes, in the purchase of the HM Pentridge Prison, located in Melbourne, Australia.

From 'The Age' (Melbourne, Australia):

"On the basis of the substantial profits made selling Great White Sharks to the former art student of London, UK, Damian Hirst, Elvis_Picasso has purchased HM Prison Pentridge, Melbourne, Australia."

"The ELVIS_PICASSO FOUNDATION will be painting the interior of the existing prison cells white thus converting them to studios for poor Australian artists and students graduating from the nations posh art schools. One whole wing of the prison will be made available free of charge for illegal immigrants and 'boat people' who look like they will need a well lit painting studio."

Further details of this exciting project will be posted on appropriate 'social media'.

RELATED VISUAL REFERENCES for Art History Scholars

Elvis_Picasso
Exhibition Poster
Installation
Harrod's Food Hall 1992
Knightbridge
London, UK.

HM Prison Pentridge
Prison Cell
Prior to Renovation
2015