Ceramic Practice
Working mainly with a slab building technique, many of my pieces are influenced by the modelmaking practices, conceptual shapes, facades and windows found in architecture.
Sometimes motifs from my illustrations appear on vases, or I even use linocut stamps to press indents into the clay.
Where/with whom I've created:
2015-19 Hans Redel Düsseldorf, Germany
2019 Mie Ceramics Montreal, Canada
2019 Les Faiseurs Montreal, Canada
2020-2022 Makerspace&Co Marrickville, Australia
2022-present Bakehouse Studio Marrickville, Australia
Exhibitions
Offcut Challenge - 2022
Woodblock print challenge entry at Among the Trees
group exhibition
Midjuburi Arts Trail - 2022
Art at Among the Trees
group exhibition
The Shop Gallery - 2021
'Block Ink vs. Slab Building'
Solo Exhibition
The Shop Gallery - 2020 - joint artist exhibition
Kiama Art Bar - 2020 -
'Sassy for Sahsi'
Shankill Castle Cafe - 2019 -
as part of Artist residency
-Greeting Cards-
Burnetts on Barneys
80 Barney Street,
Kiama 2533 NSW
Australia
Pressing Matters Magazine
'Weedy Seadragon' print
shortlisted and published
in their Issue 20
Being an artist/designer often means you cross or merge disciplines.. in my case it branches across a few practices, materials and mediums.
I trained and used to work as an interior architect, I currently run a reclaimed timber business in Sydney, Australia - Among the Trees.
In my free time, I enjoy printmaking, pottery, illustrating, pressing flowers, writing and love working wood.
Artist Bio
Often drawing inspiration from dreams, Sara Buchner (SilvesterArt) creates small, uncomplicated illustrations that predominantly depict scenes of heartwarming delight.
Influenced by the work of Wiener Werkstätte as published in
Ver Sacrum, Silvester's pieces merge clean lines with narrative, imbuing the work with an expressive and animated quality. This animation is accentuated and brought surreally into the every day by the use of ubiquitous discarded materials such as scrap wallpaper samples or linoleum-floor offcuts; which are collaged into bold watercolours as accents or turned into printed linocuts.
SilvesterArt works offer a glimpse into a moment; as if pausing a story; a still frame, without explanation of what happened before or after. The viewer is invited to invent their own story, re-interpret these ephemeral snippets and perhaps stumble into a dream of their own.
Get in touch
collaborations, want to stock my products,
inquiries for custom pieces or just to say Hi!