ARTIST BIO

Silvia Fava is an Italian-born, Australian-based multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the connection between the inner world and the cosmos.

Originally trained in architecture, Silvia’s artistic journey evolved through years of working internationally as a tattoo artist, developing a distinctive visual language based on fluid movement, colour and organic abstraction. Her practice has since expanded into fine art, where she works primarily with alcohol inks and resin to create luminous, otherworldly landscapes reminiscent of galaxies, celestial phenomena and unknown worlds.

Deeply influenced by her studies of Alchemy, Hermeticism and esoteric philosophy, Silvia approaches each painting as a symbolic exploration of transformation. The ancient principle “As Above, So Below” lies at the heart of her work: the belief that the processes occurring throughout the universe can also be understood as reflections of our own inner experience.

Stars being born, matter dissolving, darkness becoming light and chaos reorganising itself into new forms become metaphors for the cycles of human existence: death and rebirth, surrender and becoming.

Through the unpredictable movement of ink and the depth created by layers of resin, Silvia works between intention and surrender, allowing each piece to evolve organically rather than imposing a predetermined outcome.

Her paintings are conceived as portals: fragments of imagined universes inviting the viewer to look beyond the visible world and, perhaps, recognise something of themselves within it.

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