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 Vexta requests that her name not be published.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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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]
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