An ephemeral sensibility underlines Tim Silver’s practice, which is concerned with notions of transformation and entropy. Using references to popular culture or art history, Silver’s work offers multiple interpretations but no conclusion. Instead, the artist invites audiences to bring their own imagination into play.
Tim Silver / Artist biography
Tim Silver completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts at the University of Sydney and a Master of Fine Arts by Research from the University of New South Wales (2002). Silver works with a variety of impermanent media including melted-down Crayola crayons. His work is concerned with the theory that all forms and systems are in a constant state of decay or change. This idea permeates both his objects and installations, themselves captured in this process of decomposition through free-falling photo-narratives.
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Tim Silver has held several solo exhibitions including The Tuvaluan Project at GRANTPIRRIE, Sydney (2007). He has participated in group exhibitions including the 47th October Art Salon, City of Belgrade, Serbia (2006); Random Access, McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park, Victoria (2006); and Primavera, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2002). Silver received the Freedman Foundation Travelling Scholarship (2004); an Australia Council New Work Grant (2003); and an Artspace Studio Residency (2001). His work features in private and public collections across Australia, the UK and the US.
