Catarina Silva
Jeweller
Published: 09.09.2019
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4 new necklaces consist of votive nature that functions as reliquaries where Catarina archives memories that she has been collecting over time.
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Necklace: Landscape I, 2019
Glass beads, vintage postcard.
10 x 59 x 0.5 cm
Photo by: Pedro Sequeira
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Necklace: Landscape II, 2019
Glass beads, vintage postcard.
15 x 37 x 0.5 cm
Photo by: Pedro Sequeira
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Necklace: Big bunny is watching you, 2019
Glass beads, chocolate paper.
13 x 52 x 1 cm
Photo by: Pedro Sequeira
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Object: Ex-voto, 2019
Glass beads.
11 x 80 x 1 cm
Photo by: Pedro Sequeira
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Bracelet: Matsuri lantern #1, 2019
Painted zinc.
12 cm x 12 cm x 12 cm
Photo by: Pedro Sequeira
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Necklace: Confetti, 2019
Painted zinc, bone, silk thread.
diameter 60 cm
Photo by: Pedro Sequeira
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Necklace: Não são rosas meu senhor, 2019
Painted zinc, aluminium, alpaca, silk thread, plastic beads.
diameter 26 cm x 2 cm
Photo by: Pedro Sequeira
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Necklace: Hot pink, 2019
Painted zinc, alpaca.
diameter 60 cm x 4 cm
Photo by: Pedro Sequeira
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Brooch: Dieguitas, 2018
Zinc, silver, stainless steel, paint.
Photo by: Pedro Sequeira
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Necklace: Mikado Lab, 2018
Zinc, silver, thread, paint.
Photo by: Pedro Sequeira
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Necklace: Falbala, 2018
Zinc, aluminium, paint.
Photo by: Pedro Sequeira
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Necklace: Holy Mary, 2018
Zinc, silver, thread, paint.
Photo by: Pedro Sequeira
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Pendant: Eufémia, 2018
Zinc, silver, thread, paint.
Photo by: Pedro Sequeira
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Necklace: Cassandra, 2018
Zinc, aluminium, thread and acrylic paint.
55 x 33 x 0.3 cm
Photo by: Pedro Sequeira
From series: Speaking Flowers
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Necklace: Ceres, 2018
Zinc, Aluminium, Textile, Paint
75 x 26 x 2 cm
Photo by: Pedro Sequeira
From series: Speaking Flowers
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Brooch: Carpinhas de Rabo na boca, 2018
Zinc, oxidized silver, stainless steel, spray paint.
From series: Something Fishy
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Necklace: The grater eel, 2018
Zinc, silver, spray paint.
Photo by: Gonçalo Salema
From series: Something Fishy
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Pendant: Bluefish, 2017
Painted zink, oxidized silver, thread.
14 x 5 x 2.5 cm
From series: Something Fishy
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Brooch: Callinectes Sapidus, 2017
Painted zink, stainless steel.
12.5 x 7 cm
From series: Something Fishy
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Brooch: Sebastian, 2017
Painted zink, stainless steel.
12.5 x 7 cm
From series: Something Fishy
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Brooch: China Blue, 2017
Painted zink, stainless steel.
13.5 x 5.5 x 0.4 cm
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Necklace: Ciprinídeo Bicolor, 2017
Painted zink, oxidized silver.
Diameter 23 cm
From series: Something Fishy
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Pendant: Empire State Fish, 2017
Painted zink, silver, thread.
13 x 3 x 3 cm
From series: Something Fishy
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Pendant: Fisheye, 2017
Painted zink, silver, thread.
10 x 1 cm
From series: Something Fishy
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Brooch: Kohaku Sanke, 2017
Painted zink, silver.
20 x 14 x 1 cm
From series: Something Fishy
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Brooch: Rosa Coleoidea, 2017
Painted zink, stainless steel.
15.5 x 6,5 cm
From series: Something Fishy
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Necklace: Super Chunky Funky, 2017
Painted zink, oxidized silver.
18 x 8 cm, diameter: 15 cm
From series: Something Fishy
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Pendant: Decorations décoratives, 2017
Copper, paint, string.
10 x 6 cm
front and back
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Pendant: Decorations décoratives, 2017
Copper, paint, string.
10 x 6 cm
front and back
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Pendant: Decorations décoratives, 2017
Copper, paint, string.
10 x 6 cm
front and back
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Pendant: Decorations décoratives, 2017
Copper, paint, string.
10 x 6 cm
front and back
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Brooch: Untitled, 2017
Valchromat, cashew lacquer, silver, stainless steel.
19 x 9 x 0.8 cm
Photo by: Catarina Silva
From series: Rocks&Clouds
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Brooch: Untitled, 2017
Valchromat, cashew lacquer, pigment, silver, stainless steel.
16 x 7 x 0.8 cm
Photo by: Catarina Silva
From series: Rocks&Clouds
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Brooch: Untitled, 2017
Valchromat, cashew lacquer, oxidized silver and stainless steel.
19.5 x 7.5 x 0.8 cm
Photo by: Catarina Silva
From series: Rocks&Clouds
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Brooch: Untitled, 2017
Valchromat, cashew lacquer, brass, silver, stainless steel.
18 x 8.5 x 1.5 cm
Photo by: Catarina Silva
From series: Rocks&Clouds
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Pin: Untitled, 2017
Valchromat, cashew lacquer, silver.
8 x 4 x 0.8 cm
Photo by: Catarina Silva
From series: Rocks&Clouds
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Brooch: Untitled, 2017
Valchromat, cashew lacquer, plastic, silver, stainless steel.
16 x 7 x 1.5 cm
Photo by: Catarina Silva
From series: Rocks&Clouds
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Pendant: Untitled, 2017
Valchromat, cashew lacquer, spray paint, silver, string.
14 x 11 x 0.8 cm
Photo by: Catarina Silva
From series: Rocks&Clouds
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Brooch: Untitled, 2016
Valchromat, cashew lacquer, spray paint, silver and stainless steel.
19 x 8 x 0.8 cm
Photo by: Catarina Silva
From series: Rocks&Clouds
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Brooch: Speaking flowers, 2015
Camelia wood, paint, silver and stainless steel.
3 x 8.5 x 3 cm
Photo by: Pedro Sequeira
Part of: Tereza Seabra Collection
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Necklace: Speacking flowers, 2015
Cedar wood, paint and oxidized silver.
47.5 x 5 x 2.5 cm
Photo by: Pedro Sequeira
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Brooch: Speaking flowers, 2015
Boxwood, reconstrusted turquoise, paint, silver and stainless steel.
13.5 x 1.8 x 2.5 cm
Photo by: Pedro Sequeira
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Necklace: Speaking flowers, 2015
Poplar wood, paint, gold 19ct.
18 x 2.5 cm
Photo by: Pedro Sequeira
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Brooch: Speaking flowers, 2015
Rosewood, paint, oxidized silver and stainless steel.
5 x 16 x 3 cm
Photo by: Pedro Sequeira
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Pin: Speaking flowers, 2015
Cedar wood, sucupira wood, paint and oxidized silver.
14 x 8 x 2.5 cm
Photo by: Pedro Sequeira
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Ring: Speaking flowers, 2015
Purple wood, paint and oxidized silver.
4 x 1.5 x 3.5 cm
Photo by: Pedro Sequeira
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Pin: Speaking flowers, 2015
Cedar wood, paint and oxidized silver.
6 x 2.8 x 2.5 cm
Photo by: Pedro Sequeira
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Pendant: Still life with a cassowary, 2014
Silver, pearls, shell and hemp cord.
12 x 42 cm
Photo by: Pedro Sequeira
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Pendant: Still life with a giraffe, 2014
Silver, corals, shell and hemp cord.
11 x 42 cm
Photo by: Pedro Sequeira
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Pendant: Still life with a bird, 2014
Silver, pearls, shell and hemp cord.
7 x 42 cm
Photo by: Pedro Sequeira
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Pendant: Still life with a rotten apple, 2014
Silver, pearls, shell and hemp cord.
9 x 42 cm
Photo by: Pedro Sequeira
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Brooch: Oh la vache!, 2012
Found object, fluorite, paint, gold leaf, emerald, diamond, oxidized silver and stainless steel.
6 x 3 x 2.5 cm
Photo by: Catarina Silva
Part of: Tereza Seabra Collection
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Brooch: Ranjit Singh, 2012
Found objects, gold leaf, gold 19ct, diamonds and zirconium.
4 x 1.5 x 2 cm
Photo by: Catarina Silva
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Necklace: Golden pony aka David, 2012
Found object, oil painting, zirconiums, turquoise and silver.
6 x 35 cm
Photo by: Catarina Silva
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I was born in Lisbon and studied jewellery at Ar.Co (Centro de arte e comunicação visual) between 2000 and 2005. I have worked at Galeria Reverso and since 2013 in Galeria Tereza Seabra. Currently I am a teacher as well as the head of the Jewellery Department in the school where I graduated.
Statement
The idea of working with beads comes from the ritualistic and contemplative character that is in the making. This work consists of a series of pieces of votive nature that function as reliquaries where I archive memories that I have been collecting over time.Point by point, pixel by pixel I built imaginary landscapes that seem to already inhabit the memory of the viewer.
About Something fishy seies
A group of pieces that arise within the scope of the exhibition Archipelago, in which the underwater imagery becomes a subject of matter. This environment raises a fantasy universe of distance and depth in which the occult and the unusual implement an aura of mystery during the creative process and its result. These pieces built in zinc, cut and painted, celebrate a materialization of the surreal and the fantastic proposing new plastic and formal forms.
About Rocks&Clouds series
Based on dichotomy as a metaphorical motif, symbol of weight and lightness, allied to the mental and manual process of plastic creation, I started with this idea the current series that I now develop. In this group, instead of the usual more instinctive and lyrical approach, I choose for a more mental and organizational approach in which the creative intuition operates on a structure of methodical and structuralist basis. The objects make use of the ancestral technique of the Japanese lacquer on a heterodox semi synthetic support, the valchromat, through new color combinations, graphic compositions and minimalist solutions.
About Down the Rabbit Hole series.
A group of pieces that develops and establishes a clear relationship with previous work in so far that it explores the same plastic and technical procedures though widening and reinventing its use in search of a recurrent humoristic aspect that is based on the universe of the fantastic and the unheard.
The surrealistic assemblage that results in the intertwine between forms that allude the naturalistic in counterpoint with apparently mechanical and artificial elements seeks to establish an effect that in spite of being inspired in the historical tradition of still life it still aims to reinvent it’s appearance, it’s shape and its content and meaning.
The surrealistic and neo-pop assemblage that results in the intertwine between ornamental forms that allude the naturalistic in counterpoint with apparently mechanical and artificial elements, seeks to establish an effect that in spite of being inspired in the historical tradition still aims to reinvent it’s form and meaning.
The premise of constructing portable, usable Jewellery associated with the expressive and inventive qualities of drawing and collage enabled contrast between volume and lightness thus ensuring an ethereal sensation and abstract perception of this pieces.
I intend to demonstrate the significance of Jewellery as a discipline with an enriching artistic practice decisive in the definition and construction of culture in contemporary existence.
“not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these".
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