Two Frost Originals, Zero Chill
Forget subtle. Forget safe. Two rare, punch-in-the-face Ben Frost originals from 2015 have just hit Addicted Art Gallery and we're here for it:
🎨 Valium Lover — prescription packaging reimagined as pop culture poison.
🎨 Cocaine (Justonemorebump) — your childhood cartoon icons, all grown up… and messed up.
Both are large-scale spray paint and stencil works on canvas, signed, and 100% Frost at his provocative best.
Dose Up On Frost — Strictly Prescription Only
Title: Valium Lover
Medium: Seven-colour spray paint + stencil on canvas, signed on verso
Edition: Original
Year: 2015
Size: 125.0cm × 95.0cm × 3.0cm
Why It Rocks:
Ben Frost plays with the ubiquity of advertising and packaging—pushing everyday ephemera into the realm of fine art. As he explains, advertising “can be extremely jarring… so I spend a lot of time on the process and how different juxtapositions work together to make the most relevant and appealing results.”
Title: Cocaine (Justonemorebump)
Medium: Eight-colour spray paint + stencil on canvas, signed on verso
Edition: Original
Year: 2015
Size: 125.0cm × 95.0cm × 3.0cm
Why It Stings—in a Good Way:
The cartoon characters of your childhood, like you, have grown up. They’ve lived through trauma, battled addiction, found Jesus, entertained deviant fantasies—and just like you, they’re still working on it.
This is the provocative world built over 30 years by Australian pop artist Ben Frost. His hybrid art fuses the clean aesthetics of pop art—flat colours, iconic branding, and cartoon imagery—with a jarring social critique that cuts deep. Like the pharmaceuticals that often feature in his artwork, Ben's paintings sooth and sicken in equal measure, inviting the viewer to confront the contradictions of modern life.
Ben Frost doesn’t just make art — he makes headlines, side-eyes and collectors jealous.
Own the art everyone else warns you about.
📩 Ready to collect?
Contact us directly at blair@addictedgallery.com or elena@addictedgallery.com to add an original Ben Frost to your collection before someone else does.
Until the next one, stay Addicted...
Blair & El 💖
xoxo