Vexta
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Vexta is an Australian stencil artist and street artist from Sydney, Australia.
Vexta is an Australian stencil artist and street artist from Sydney, Australia.
Career
Beginning her career as an artist predominately working on the streets of Melbourne and Sydney, New South Wales, Vexta is now considered to be one of Australia's most popular and renowned Australian artists working within both urban environments and gallery spaces. Much of her work surrounds the concepts of death, rebirth and the duality of the sexes (an area which she has much to comment on as one of the few famous female street artists in operation), can be seen on walls and galleries all over Australia, America, London, mainland Europe, Mexico and South America, and most recently the Contemporary Art Biennale of India. Vexta has been called "one of Australia's few female stencil artists to have achieved wide recognition" by Lois Stavsky, author of the seminal Graffiti 365 art book. Vexta moved from Sydney to Melbourne in the mid-2000s. In Melbourne, she became involved in the local stencil art scene, alongside artists including Dlux, Optic, Sync, and Ha-Ha, she began cutting and spraying her own stencils. She began producing her own stencil work during this period. Her art often features figures with feathered wings and kissing skeletons. Her work has been purchased by the National Gallery of Australia and was prominently featured in the gallery's first-ever street and stencil art exhibition, "Space Invaders", which toured Australian art institutions for two years. She has also completed large-scale commissioned pieces on walls around the world internationally, been included in dozens of group shows.
See also
List of 20th-century women artists List of Australian artists List of people from Melbourne List of Australian street artists
References
Further reading
Stencil Revolution Member Gallery. (features photos of works exhibited.)
External links
, her official website Melbourne: Stencil Graffiti Capital
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