About
Sarah Silvey is a multidisciplinary artist, jeweller, and poet. She grew up immersed in the enchanting world of antique jewellery, thanks to her father’s work as an antique jeweller. She had an early interest in photography but followed her passion into academia, earning a degree in cultural anthropology, with studies in fine art and poetry. Years later, she returned to her roots and studied the craft of goldsmithing. Jewellery felt instinctive to her, having grown up surrounded by her father’s world of antique treasures.
Her designs are inspired by nature’s organic rhythms and art historical periods—from the opulence of Baroque and the whimsy of Art Nouveau, to the irreverence of mid-century Modernism. She hand-crafts each piece in her Vancouver, BC studio, and uses repurposed vintage gemstones to create sculptural designs that are described as poetry in form. Her work explores themes of desire, the performative nature of adornment, sustainability and the intimate rituals of self-expression and pleasure evoked through the act of wearing jewellery.