VEXTA
How do we feel about ourselves now? How do we feel about the future? Vexta has always wanted her art to make people think. On stepping into the gallery, her oeuvre remains characterised by the instinctive qualities that developed from an apprenticeship on the street, and has lost none of its distinctive élan.
This artist’s practice has been honed by wit and nimbleness, and mediated only by a desire to make images that speak of their time. Pop culture, lines from songs and mass media’s imagery accumulate in her work, and imbue it with the immediacy of life from which she draws her inspiration.
This is a new kind of portrait of society in technicolour, both enchanting and ominous, that bears witness to the wrestle between the present, the past, and the spectre of what is to come. For a growing number of critics and collectors, Vexta’s work delivers a graphic bang that cannot be ignored.
Solo Exhibitions
2011
Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane
2009
Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane
Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne
2007
May’s Presents Vexta, May’s Lane, Sydney
2006
The Hero Talent, Kings Artist Run Space, Melbourne
2005
May’s Presents Vexta, May’s Lane, Sydney
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009
Vexta, Kill Pixie, Ari Athans, Edwina Corlette Gallery, Brisbane
2008
Future Shock, 42 Below Gallery, Auckland
Future Shock, Per Square Metre Gallery, Melbourne Cans Festival, Leake St Tunnel, London
Kosmopolite, Paris
Vendredi 13, 2plus2egals5 Gallery, Lyon, France
2007
The May’s Retrospective 2, MTV Gallery, Sydney
Urban Skins, Pinnacles Gallery, Townsville
Curvy 4, Citylights Projects, Melbourne
Emptyshow, Melbourne
2006
Swipe, Hushhush Gallery, Melbourne
Rumble, Until Never Gallery, Melbourne
Kidz These Dayz, Dickerson Gallery, Melbourne Emptyshow, Melbourne
The Mays Retrospective, St Peters Warehouse, Sydney Broken Windows Theory, Bus Gallery, Melbourne Anythink, Platform2, Melbourne
2005
Spray & Wipe, Brightspace Gallery, Melbourne Wallworx, Wollongong City Gallery
Paper Ninjas, Melbourne Stencil Festival, Meatworks Melbourne
Collections, Commissions, Projects & Workshops
2009
Artbank
2008
Private Residence Mural Commission, Paris
Tom Does My Hair Mural Commission, Melbourne National Gallery Of Victoria, Artist Talk & Workshop
2007
National Gallery Of Australia, Australian Prints Collection
Deadly Conference, Gasworks Stencil Art Workshops Port Phillip Council Stencil Art Workshop
Fat Elvis Garden Design Commissioned Art For The Melbourne International Garden & Flower Show Pigtales Productions Commissioned Stencil For Short Film
2006
Fat Elvis Garden Design Mural Commissions for two private residences, Melbourne
Poster Magazine Mural For Retail Art Walk, Melbourne
St Kilda Primary School Stencil Mural Project Melbourne
Gasworks Mural Project
Eltham Private College Artist Talk & Stencil Art Workshops
Film, Television, Books & Radio
Not Quite Art ABC TV 2007
Uncommissioned Art: An A-Z Of Australian Graffiti Christine Dew. Miegunyah Press Melbourne 2007
Mcculloch’s Encyclopedia Of Australian Art 2006
Mai Time TV NZ Featured Artist 2006
Sunday Arts Show ABC TV Featured Artist 2006
Street Art Uncut, Matthew Lunn, Craftsman House 2006
Stencil Graffiti Capital: Melbourne Ed By Smallman & Nyman. Mark Batty Pub Usa &Tower Books Aus 2006
Rash, Feature Length Film Nicholas Hansen, Madman Distribution 2006
True Fantasy, Silent Army Publishers 2005
Conform No1: Australian Street Art Saskia Folk Palgrave, Macmillain Publishers Australia 2004
Mondo Thingo ABC TV 2004
Rrr Breakfast Show Interview Rrr Fm Radio 2004
Cut Outs Short Film Cassandra Bakic 2003
Alchemy Interview Sbs Radio 2003
The Arts Show Interview JJJ Fm Radio 2003
The Morning Show Interview JJJ Fm Radio 2003