Artist Statement

Silvia embraces multi-disciplinary practices and historical artefacts from her background to work around the themes of culture, identity and memory. The use of Nature as a vehicle to express underlying emotions and experiences, allows her artwork to be open for the viewer to interpret in their own way.  Poetry and found elements from her surroundings are some of her main sources of inspiration in the journey of discovering herself as an artist. Silvia considers the process as valuable as the final piece: she likes to combine traditional disciplines, like etching or cyanotype, with other more contemporary methods, like laser engraving or digital print, both for the materiality of the technique and to give me different alternatives for experimentation. She is influenced by artists like Idris Khan, Anselm Kiefer, herman de vries or Andy Goldsworthy to discover some of the meaning behind her work and to be more adventurous in the way to express her ideas. 

Silvia won a Printmaker Council Award for her final piece in a Master of Visual Arts specialised on printmaking. She is actually working as a print technician at Zeno Fine Art.