Sydney WorldPride mural artist Scottie Marsh on Wynyard teddy bear painting ... trends now
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A street artist with a reputation for creating controversial murals has described the hatred towards his latest piece as being 'on a new level' after it was defaced just hours after he finished it and he suffered weeks of death threats.
Scottie Marsh, a well-known Sydney artist, addressed the debate around his WorldPride-inspired mural outside Wynyard Station, which depicted a hairy man wearing a leather harness and a teddy bear mask as he drank a White Russian on a dilapidated couch.
The mural was finished by Marsh around February 22 before being splashed with black and grey paint a day later.
Vandals also spray painted 'leave the kids alone' in bright red letters.
Marsh replaced the mural this week with rainbow letters reading 'Art happens' and took to Instagram on Wednesday night to address the controversy.
Scottie Marsh (pictured) responded to critics of his latest artwork on Instagram
The artwork was defaced a day after Marsh finished it in a number of attacks
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'I accept that people have different tastes, thresholds and values to myself and over time ... I'm going to piss off certain groups, it's part of the process,' Marsh wrote.
While the street artist said labelling it as being in 'poor taste' or asking for it to be painted over were 'perfectly valid positions', death threats and calling him a paedophile were not.
'I'm no stranger to
