Peacock - ORIMONEY Series

Origami Peacock folded from 100 American Dollars Bill and drawn with pigment fineliner on watercolour paper.

Has been exhibited at Off The Kerb gallery in Melbourne.

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.