Well known and long standing Melbourne artist Vexta has a new solo exhibition this month, opening tonight at Platform. Known in the past for her amazing portraiture incorporating stencil work , her latest exhibition, Extinction in Technicolour,  moves into more experimental grounds for the artist – and we have to say, we’re pretty intrigued.

“Extinction in Technicolour is a collection of work examining ideas about our relationship to the creatures living around us, and our collective future. Fuelled by themes of destruction and recreation, dreams and the subconscious, life and death, time and space, the work takes shape as future relics – paintings of figures suspended in the darkness, suspended in life and assemblages of bones and skulls displayed as curios from the future.

Most of the work in Extinction in Technicolour is created from urban found objects; bones found in the countryside, forests and desert combined with left over materials from the artists studio. An important element of the work is creation through salvage. Taking what has been discarded and left behind through death and garbage and breathing life into it once more, whilst also acknowledging that ultimately we are all made of the same matter.”

Who: Vexta
What: Extinction in Technicolour solo exhibition
Where: Platform, Degraves Subway. Melbourne
When: Opening Friday May 7th 6pm til 8pm, runs til May 29th

Also see the Facebook event page and Vextas website for more information on the opening and the artist.