Sylv Davey
- Work
- Biography
Current work is one-off collagraph prints, which explore a number of ideas including the power and impact of multiples and pattern. This has formed a common theme throughout my career both in my sculptural pieces and my 2D work, and has its roots in my history as a production potter.
I rarely produce ‘editioned’ work. I find it more interesting and challenging to work on series of prints; where I can develop and explore an idea over perhaps ten or twelve closely related but one-off, themed pieces of work.
This allows me to take a more experimental approach, an element of risk-taking, which draws me forward as an artist and allows the work to remain fresh, expressive and exciting.
I rarely produce ‘editioned’ work. I find it more interesting and challenging to work on series of prints; where I can develop and explore an idea over perhaps ten or twelve closely related but one-off, themed pieces of work.
This allows me to take a more experimental approach, an element of risk-taking, which draws me forward as an artist and allows the work to remain fresh, expressive and exciting.
I am a visual artist with a wide and varied background in craft and fine art. My late father was one of Scotland’s leading early studio craft potters. I worked with him from a young age, and he trained me to join his team of production throwers of high quality domestic stoneware in his thriving studio workshop. I grew up around Galloway’s high forest and rugged coastline and, alongside my artistic career, I worked for some years in the horticulture industry. I am deeply committed to environmental issues and commonly take organic forms as a starting point and reference for the images in my art-work. I moved to the Scottish Borders after studying fine art sculpture and printmaking at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee, from which I graduated BA Hons in 1992.
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- Changes 2
- Mono Print
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- Field- Process
- Mono Print
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- Changes 3
- Mono Print
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- Changes 7
- Mono Print
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- Changes 8
- Mono Print
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- Changes 10
- Mono Print
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- The Stone, The Furrow
- Mono Print
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