Penny
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 "Homer in the Bushes (g)"Hand cut stencil - Spray paint on a Pound Note 6x3 inches Signed and numbered $1100 framed in a black museum quality frame with non glare glass |  "Corrupt Host"Hand cut stencil - Spray paint on a Pound Note 6x3 inches Signed and numbered $1300 framed in a black museum quality frame with non glare glass |  "Printer Error - Sterling"Hand cut stencil - Spray paint on a Pound Note 6x3 inches Signed and numbered $1300 framed in a black museum quality frame with non glare glass |
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 "Care Bear Warfare - Messenger of Death"11 layer hand cut stencil Spray paint on vintage civil war trading cards, circa 1962 Framed in musuem quality shadow box frame with premium non-glare glass 8 x 5.5cm Signed and dated one off original (one-off) $1150 |  "Weeping Woman - Pink"C-type print on archival crystal semi-matt 21 x 16.25cm (231 GSM) Framed in musuem quality shadow box frame with premium non-glare glass Signed and number edition of 25 $500 framed |  "Take Aim"1 layer hand cut stencil Spray paint on an NRA shooting target 22 x 14” $1100 framed in a black museum quality frame with non glare glass |
 "Take Aim"1 layer hand cut stencil Spray paint on an NRA shooting target 22 x 14” $1100 framed in a black museum quality frame with non glare glass |  "Re-run episode 1"9 layer hand cut stencil framed Spray paint on vintage civil war trading cards, circa 1962 Mounted on black mount board Framed in musuem quality shadow box frame with premium non-glare glass 16.5x16cm Signed and numbered from a series of 5 (each unique) (one-off) $1500 |  "Shadow of Man" framed in black1 layer hand cut stencil Spray paint on a shooting target 22 x 14” Signed HPM of 10 $1800 (Last One) |
 Demolition in Progress - Main Edition5 layer hand pulled screen print on Somerset Satin 310gsm 25x16” unframed Signed and numbered edition of 50 $180 unframed plus $100 custom framed with museum quality non-glare glass |  Demolition in Progress - Special Edition5 layer hand pulled pearlescent screen print on Somerset Satin 310gsm 25x16” unframed Signed and numbered edition of 20 $260 unframed plus $100 framed |  "Bathed in Rainbows"26 layer hand cut stencil Spray paint on genuine one Dollar bill with holographic multicolour embellishments Mounted on black board framed in a black shadow box with museum quality non glare glass9.8x15.6cm Signed and numbered HPM of 3 - (Only 1 left) $old out |
 "Protected Interests"29 layer aerosol stencil on uncut $1 bills sold out - Inquire about commissions |  "Dirty Money"31 layer hand cut stencil - Spray paint on a $Dollar bill 6x3 inches unframed Signed and numbered Sold Out |  "You met me at a very strange time in my life"8 layer hand cut stencil - Spray paint on a $Dollar bill 6x3 inches unframed Signed and numbered HPM of 50 - Sold Out |
 "In a Spin - One Dollar - 02"36 One Dollar bills hand cut into 392 strips and reformed 22” diameter SOLD |  "In a Spin - Dollar 02" - Detail 3 |  "Sights Set" Framed1 layer hand cut stencil Spray paint on a shooting target 22 x 14” Signed HPM of 10 Sold Out |
 "Gilt Edge 3"2 layer hand cut stencil Spray paint on 24k gold replica vintage £50 Pound banknote unframed 17.5x9.5cm Signed and numbered HPM of 3 $old out |  "Grim - Inflation" FramedGrim - Inflation 17 layer hand cut stencil Spray paint on for ten Pound notes cut into 6,048 squares and reformed 6 x 3” Signed HPM of 10 |  Penny - "Weeping Woman" (blue b/g)17 layer hand cut stencil Spray paint on ten pound note The additional framed element is a high gloss silver based C-type print - framed in a white shadow box frame with museum quality non-glare glass 14.2 x 7.45cm - 6 x 3 1/4 inches - art size Signed AP 3a Sold |
 Blind - Five Dollar23 layer hand cut stencil Spray paint on uncut sheet of 3x $5 bills in white shadow box frame with museum non glare glass 19.8x15.6cm (7.8x6.14 inches) One-off - $old |  Falling to Pieces - Fifty Dollar8 layer hand cut stencil Spray paint on $1 and $50 Dollar bills in white shadow box frame with museum non glare glass 15.6x6.6cm (6.2x2.6inches) One-off - $old |  Falling to Pieces - Hundred Dollar8 layer hand cut stencil Spray paint on $1 and $100 Dollar bills in white shadow box frame with museum non glare glass 15.6x6.6cm(6.2x2.6inches) One-off - $old |
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PENNY
I'M PENNY AND I HAND CUT EXTREMELY DETAILED AND OCCASIONALLY MIND-BOGGLING TINY STENCILS WITH MY BARE HANDS ... AND A SCALPEL.
IN THE BEGINNING...I gave up a career as a neurosurgeon and instead use my scalpel for the more worthy pursuit of cutting holes in paper.
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.
Penny graduated from Chelsea College of Art & Design and Central Saint Martins and quickly established himself within the urban art scene in London. He has since received global critical acclaim for his hand cut, extremely detailed stencil artwork.
Penny jokes that he used to be a neurosurgeon that now uses his talent with a scalpel to cut holes in paper, and it's easy to see how this could be be true – the precision and detail in his artwork is requisite to that of skilled surgeon.
Penny finds inspiration in everyday objects and often overlooked ephemera but money is the most prominent recurring theme in his work, which he regards as "representative of a sinister voyeur, an omnipresent force watching over its subjects".
Through his choices of the objects he paints on and interacts with, as well as his techniques, he brings the subversive ideas behind street art to a different kind of public property: the type that can fit in your wallet.