Vexta

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(l-r)She's Only Dancing by Vexta, and work by PETS in Hosier Lane, Melbourne, Australia
(l-r)She's Only Dancing by Vexta, and work by PETS in Hosier Lane, Melbourne, Australia

Vexta is a prominent Melbourne street artist [1]. She is especially notable because she is a female operating in a male-dominated arena [2]. Her work is mostly human portraiture. Vexta requests that name not be published.

Vexta moved to Melbourne from Sydney and saw many examples of Stencil art by other artists namely Dlux, Optic, Sync, and Ha-Ha. She was inspired by their art and has been cutting and spraying stencils since 2003 [3].

Some of her work has been purchased by the National Gallery of Australia, to appear in an exhibition in late 2008 [4]. She has also completed commissioned pieces and worked with a landscape design company [5].

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[edit] Motivation

Vexta's motivation for stencil art is both artistic and socio-political. She has been documented as saying:

"I don't want to live in a city that's really bland and covered in grey and brown and advertising. I never said it was OK to put a billboard on the top of Brunswick Street, so who's to say that I can't put up a small A4 size image in a back laneway?" [1].

Her main aim in her work is to connect with the public on an emotional level:

"I want to find and capture what it is that makes us human, the soul of the individual that is at once personal but at the same time deeply universal." [3].

[edit] Techniques

Vexta has a background in screen printing [3]. Many of Vexta's pieces are developed from photographs taken of her friends. An example of this is Diving Woman at St Kilda Junction, or Somnolent, featuring Joelistics from Tzu.

Mediums she uses include acrylic and enamel paint on board, aluminium[6] and found pieces. She also posts paste-ups and stickers.

[edit] Exhibitions

  • Spray & Wipe, August 2005 [7]
  • Mays Lane, September 2005 [8]
  • Kidz These Days, July 2006 with Ha-Ha and Psalm [6]
  • Curvy 4 Live Collaboration, May 2007 [9]
  • Urban Skins, August 2007 [10]
  • Mays Lane, November 2007 with Ha-Ha and MiniGraff [11]

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b "Our colourful underbelly", 2005-12-05. Retrieved on 2007-12-19. 
  2. ^ "A bold, edgy, art-rendering display", Sydney Morning Herald, 2007-09-06. Retrieved on 2007-12-19. 
  3. ^ a b c Smallman & Nyman [2005]. Stencil Graffiti Capital: Melbourne. Mark Batty Publisher. Retrieved on 2007-12-19. 
  4. ^ "Stencil art world draws the line", The Age, 2007-05-09. Retrieved on 2007-12-19. 
  5. ^ Dew [2007]. Uncommissioned Art: An A to Z of Australian Graffiti. The Meigunyah Press. Retrieved on 2007-12-19. 
  6. ^ a b Kidz These Dayz (2005-July).
  7. ^ Spray and Wipe street art exhibition (2005-August).
  8. ^ http://graphicartmount.com.au/mays/Image/MAYSpanelartweb/006_vexta_panel.jpg
  9. ^ Until Never: Curvy4 and Fafi!! (2007-April). Retrieved on 2007-12-19.
  10. ^ Youth bands and skaters celebrate art (2007-08-02). Retrieved on 2007-12-19.
  11. ^ art

[edit] Further reading

  • Christine Dew (2007). Uncommissoned art : Melbourne. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press. ISBN 9780522853759. 
  • Jake Smallman; Carl Nyman (2005). Stencil graffiti capital : Melbourne. New York: Mark Batty Publisher. ISBN 0976224534. 

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