Sian Faber

 A Fine Art graduate from New Zealand,Sian lived and worked in Australia for over 30 years, focusing on seascapes and fluid movement in her painting practice.

From her Gaucin studio looking down the old Bandido trails to the Mediterranean,Gibraltar, & Morocco, Sian found her European ‘voice’.

Sian’s wall sculptures of stone and glass adapt Byzantine mosaic traditions in her unique “Silica Squared” technique. Here, Sian upends thousands of hand-cut shards of stained glass into cement, creating textures of flowing movement, the constant reflection of light rippling across them like blades of sea grass.

In her Stone Series, you hang a slice of the mountain upon your wall… windows for pools of glass cut into natural stone whose unvarnished surfaces reveal their own stories of movement.

In her colourful paintings of figurative movement, flamenco dancers are drawn with the quill of a griffon vulture… capturing moments in time – movement with passion, movement with drama. 

 

Sian’s works are held in private and corporate collections worldwide and she is currently working on collaborations with local artists and her own solo exhibition later this year in Malaga province.

 

Andalucia, Southern Spain.

2023

Solo Exhibition

Gaucin Tourist Office

Solo Exhibition

La Casa de Las Tejerinas, Estepona

Art Gaucin 2023, 2022, 2019, 2018, 2017

2016 Spilembergo;College & University, Scuola Mosaicisti del Fruili & Ravenna: Roman Mosaic Theory & practise

2017 Venice,Orsoni, Glass cutting masterclass.

 

Sydney, Australia

2023  Artist Showcase – Sketch Gallery, curated by Caroline Heslop.

2017  Artist Showcase – Dr Zachariah Surgery, curated by Sally Dan Cuthbert.

2016  Solo Exhibition -“Harbour Bridge Views” – Potts Pt.

Finalist, Art Prize – Waverley Arts College, Judged by Tim Olsen.

Finalist, Art Prize – Hunters Hill Art Exhibition

2015  Solo Exhibition – “Beachside” – Paddington

2014  Solo Exhibition -“Silhouettes and Seascapes” – Bronte Surf Club

Archibald Prize Entrant Show, “Swim Coach” – Bondi Icebergs Club

2013  Solo Exhibition “50 Shades of Blue” – Kings Cross

Solo Exhibition – Artist Studio Pop Up – Kings Cross

2012  Solo Exhibition – “Dancer Sketches” – Potts Point

Solo Exhibition  “Bondi Breakers”- Bondi Beach

Group Arts Exhibition – Riverside College

2011  “Bondi Breaker” Exhibition – Changeable Art show (Sold Out)

Solo Exhibition “Breakers and Jazz” with Avenue Manouche – Vaucluse

Solo Exhibition -“Bondi Breakers” – Vaucluse

Group Arts Exhibition – Riverside College, winner of Students Choice.

2010  Group Arts Exhibition – Waverley Arts College

Group Show – Gallery 307 – Northbridge

2009  Group Arts Exhibition – Waverley Arts College

2008  Group Arts Exhibition – Waverley Arts College

1988-2008 private tuition and studies -Waverley Arts College & Australian Centre of Photography.

Performer (née Sian Bourhill) in Lisa Reihana’s 1990 film work “Wog Features”.

25 yrs Sole proprietor of alternative health practice Sian Massage Therapy in Sydney,Australia.

New Zealand

1987 Bachelor of Fine Arts Graduate (Elam Fine Arts School, Auckland University)

Majoring in time-based experimental film & sculptural installations under guiding hands of Phillip Dadson, & Greer Twiss .