Asprey Studio x JACK BUTCHER
Asprey Studio has handcrafted in solid silver the physical iterations of Work (2024) and Luck (2026), two digital artworks by Jack Butcher, which will be presented at Art Basel Hong Kong 2026 by Silk Art House.
Together, Work and Luck operate as a paired inquiry into how value is produced, narrated, and distributed, as seen within art markets and across contemporary systems of labour, technology, and capital. Rather than offering objects alone, Butcher constructs a working diagram: one thatmakes the mechanisms behind success, scarcity, and certainty explicit.
BIOGRAPHY
As the founder of Visualize Value, Jack Butcher (b. 1988, UK) has established himself as a master of minimalist design, translating complex philosophical and economic concepts into striking visual metaphors. With a background in advertising, Butcher transitioned to independent artistic practice, gaining recognition for his ability to distill intricate ideas into powerful, simplified graphics. His work challenges viewers to reconsider conventional notions of value, ownership, and scarcity in the digital age.
WORK
Work (2024) is a solid silver sculptural translation of one of Butcher’s earlier digital works into solid silver. The work takes the form of four hands, charting a progression from anatomically detailed, human labour to a simplified, pixelated cursor, tracing the migration of work from physical effort to interface-driven action. Originally conceived in the digital realm, Work questions what happens when labour becomes invisible, abstract and how belief in effort is maintained when proof disappears.
Crafted in pure silver by the Asprey Studio Atelier, Work reintroduces weight, materiality, and institutional verification into a conversation dominated by speed and networks. The first hand is fully hallmarked by the UK Assay Office and bears newly registered marks connected to the artist, embedding a centuries-old system of trust directly into the object itself. The result is a collision of timelines: slow institutional proof alongside fast digital verification, a sculpture that stages the question of what counts as evidence when value increasingly moves faster than material trace.
LUCK
If Work examines labour, Luck destabilises the myth of randomness. The work consists of a six-part set of dice handcrafted in solid silver by the Asprey Studio Atelier, each stripped of numerical variance: one die displays only ones, another only twos, continuing through six. A tool designed for chance is re-engineered into a mechanism of predetermined outcome.
At Art Basel Hong Kong, Luck will unfold as a live installation. Visitors can participate, rolling the dice and receiving a 3D-printed resin die produced on-site. The roll does not determine what they want - only what the system allows them to have. In parallel, collectors can acquire Luck in
its entirety as a complete silver set, priced to reflect the difference between participation and ownership.
The proposition is simple but pointed: participation is accessible; certainty is not. To own the full system is to remove chance altogether; to hold all outcomes simultaneously. In this way, Luck mirrors the broader economies it references, where agency increasingly resides not in effort or randomness alone, but in control of the structure itself .
The handcrafting process
Asprey Studio was founded in 2022 to explore the future of art, marking a new frontier for Asprey, the 245-year-old British luxury house. The Studio builds upon time-honoured craftsmanship while advancing state-of-the-art technological innovation, creating a space where heritage and experimentation coexist. Featuring a large gallery space in Mayfair and an Atelier in Kent, Asprey Studio is guided by Chief Creative Officer and artist, Alastair Walker, and stands as an advocate for established and emerging artists working with technology.
For Work and Luck, Asprey Studio crafted the sculptures in solid silver using traditional British silversmithing techniques. These works translate Butcher’s digital language into material form, situating the sculptures within his wider practice and the evolving ecosystem that surrounds it — where ideas of labour, value, and participation continue to unfold and be questioned.
The collaboration stands as an ongoing dialogue between historical craft traditions and contemporary digital thinking — hallmarked silver serving as the substrate for ideas native to the information age.
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