Sydney-born, Melbourne-residing artist Vexta is known for her intricate paintings and large scale street works which combine a fluid use of stencils and expressive hand painted elements. From the mid 2000s, Vexta's street art began spreading across her dual home cities of Melbourne & Sydney before going on to spread across the globe. Since her early days of running around back laneways with a spray can, her work has developed into a dedicated studio practice creating paintings, assemblage sculptures and installations. Her psychedelic, neon-drenched images draw from a broad spectrum of cultural and visual debris and are heavily imbued with personal symbolism at the same time referring to a greater urban mythology. Suspended in time and space, the characters in Vexta's work connect the dots between the personal and the universal; our waking lives and the dreams beneath them. A marriage of hard-edged cultural commentary and aching beauty. Vexta has been included in numerous publications and films on street art and is considered to be at the forefront of women in the street art movement. Her work was recently acquired by the National Gallery of Australia as part of the 'Space Invaders' project and her work is also held in numerous private collections both locally and internationally.
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