Tim Patch aka Australian penis artist bids for top art prize!!!

Australian artist Tim Patch(L), who calls himself 'Pricasso', of his penis paintings of famous global figures, has entered a racy self-portrait for Australia's top art prize. Patch usually exposes his talents at sex product fairs around the world, but has decided to go upmarket by entering a painting for Australia's Archibald Prize -- the nation's top award for portraiture.

The Art Gallery of New South Wales in Sydney expects up to 700 portraits to be entered for the 2008 Archibald Prize, with the finalists to be announced in March.