Butterfly - ORIMONEY Series

Origami Butterfly folded from 50 Nepalese Rupees and drawn with a pigment fineliner on watercolour paper.
Has been exhibited at Off The Kerb gallery in Melbourne
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Transformations of Paper on Paper.
Unfolding some of the cultural stereotypes by turning national currencies into the paper art,into art on paper.
A somewhat ironic look at how money are everything, exploration of their symbolism, design and flexibility.

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Mariya Rovenko is a Melbourne-based artist, illustrator & graphic designer. Born in Ukraine where her love of art started from a very young age in the form of drawing and photography. Having officially skilled up in visual arts and graduating as a theatre costume designer, Mariya extended her interests to street art, fabric and graphic design.
After moving to Australia over 14 years ago Mariya has returned to her first love – expressing creativity on paper, which she does through a series of incredibly detailed and often ironic black and white studies.