Sarah Silvey is an artist, jeweller and poet based in Vancouver, Canada. Her background is in cultural anthropology and fine arts, and she later trained as a goldsmith. Her practice combines hand fabrication and wax sculpture, most often using mitsuro hikime, an ancient Japanese lost-wax technique practised by few jewellers. Her work explores the textures and movements of nature, and the beauty that emerges through embracing imperfection and the spontaneous sculptural process.
She grew up among antique jewels, the daughter of an antique jewellery dealer. She draws on the Baroque, Art Nouveau and mid-century Danish design, along with the archetypes of myth and art history, to create rare sculptural jewels that are theatrical and a little undone.
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