'Fall From Grace' by 23rd Key
'Fall From Grace' by 23rd Key
”The idea of ‘social change’ has always felt so out of grasp for me; I’ve always felt like real change was, and is, such a hard thing to inspire, and comes down to the most serendipitous of pivotal moments and events. I started creating this work at the beginning of 2020, following the bush fires and the battle for climate change awareness, I was thinking, almost obsessively, about these pivotal moments, the idea of a frozen moment in time and of capturing a single freeze frame of such an event.
Little did I know, what the following months would bring, and the ironic connection this piece would have given the point in time that it would be painted and finished.
I haven’t really had any inspiration throughout the months we’ve experienced so far of this pandemic, I find it hard to draw inspiration because so much of my work was, and is, inspired by things that I would personally do or be exposed to in everyday life. 2020 has forced me to take a back seat to these experiences in a way, letting something else take the reigns and drive the year. We’re all just trying to ride it out, here’s hoping that some good will come from our fall from grace” - 23rd Key
'Fall From Grace' by 23rd Key
6 layer aerosol painted stencil on board
120cm x 142cm
This work is also available as a limited edition fine art print
Signed and numbered by the artist, edition of 30
40 x 40cm
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ABOUT THE ARTIST: Jess began her foray into stencil art in 2005, first exhibiting her work in 2008, and has spent most of her time toiling over a table ever since. Under the pseudonym 23rd Key, she creates photo-realistic stencils, taking no short cuts and cutting everything by hand. With a background in printmaking, graphic design, audio engineering and currently studying Architecture, she brings the knowledge from each of these into her already photo-realistic style.
She hand carves each doily-like layer, and this attention to detail has become a trademark of her work, winning her the Australian Stencil Art Prize in 2011 and World Stencil Art Prize in 2014. The nation’s highest accolade for stencil art was only fitting for an artist who is at the forefront of her medium. Working with only 9 layers or fewer on any one piece, she doesn’t believe it’s the number of layers a stencil has that lends to her stunningly photo realistic images, but the amount of detail cut into each individual layer. Breaking ground in her medium, she is one of the few stencil artists to incorporate 3D and free hand elements into her works. 23rd Key excels in breaking the rules of the stencil medium and approaching it in a way none of her peers have before.
