urbanshitDer Künstler Penny bringt unglaublich detaillierte Schablonenbilder mit Sprühlack auf Geldscheine. Wow. Nach eignen Angaben des Künstlers, hat Penny seine Kariere als Neurochirurg aufgegeben, um sich voll und ganz auf das Schneiden von Schablonen zu konzentrieren.
Penny vertreibt seine Arbeiten in kleinen Auflagen von Originalen über seinen Webshop. Die Auflagen sind allerdings immer schnell weg. News zu neuen Arbeiten gibt es auf seiner Facebookseit oder per Newsletter.
The first stencil I cut was in 2001 when I was at Central Saint Martins doing a graphic design degree. I was so poor at the time that whenever we got a project I would always try to work out the cheapest possible way to do it… most of the time that meant making my course work out of paper, masking tape and found items. That was usually nothing more exciting than cardboard boxes, scrap wood or defunct machinery that I found in skips. I was like an East London Womble trying to recycle rubbish in creative ways, it was a bit ridiculous! A break though moment happened when I found a few cans of car paint in a cupboard under the stairs in my flat and thought to myself, “That’s gonna save money on printing costs!” I started to use stencilling for almost every single project after that. I started off by cutting text for large format posters until I eventually cut much smaller type and from there went on to cut stencils for pictures. It was very limited at the time and I learnt as I went along, making mistakes and correcting them, thinking up new techniques for specific problems. That was the fun and the beauty of it — I loved the limitations, the limitations gave me a kind of freedom. I know that sounds like an oxymoron but having to find a solution to a visual brief with a limited palette of materials was very exciting. Each project brought new challenges and I tried to find a way to push myself with each stencil by making it more complicated or more detailed, or much smaller, I was always trying to improve from the last stencil. It has taken me on a journey that I’m still on today.
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Alle Bilder © Penny
Titelbild: „Heist“ – a 19 layer hand cut stencil painted on a £10 banknote.
