A Fine Art graduate from Auckland, New Zealand,Sian has lived and worked in Sydney, Australia for over 30 years, focusing on seascapes and fluid movement in her painting practice.
In Andalucia, Spain, Sian has found her European ‘voice’ incorporating the mountainous landscape into wall sculptures of stone and glass.
From her Gaucin studio looking down the old bandido trails to the Mediterranean,Gibraltar, & Morocco, she has adapted Byzantine mosaic traditions (learnt in Italy) to perfect her ‘ShardCut’ technique. Sian upends hand-cut shards of stained plate glass into coloured cements, to create textures of flowing movement, like blades of sea grass. The constant reflection of light on the glass creates a visual magic, rippling as on the surface of water, revealing what the sun knows: that diamonds are scattered in the flow.
The jewel-like shards are surrounded by natural stone settings deliberately left rough to reveal their own stories of movement through time. Designed as hanging wall sculptures, you are able to hang a piece of a mountain on your wall.
“Concepts of time and tide, ebb and flow and the transient fragility of life, are a constant theme as I strive to create something of a lasting beauty. Although I know nothing lasts forever, and even stone can be worn away by wind and water.
Perhaps then it is the actual act of creating that becomes the thing, the evidence of which tells a story …I was here”. Sian Faber
Andalucia, Spain
2022 Art Gaucin
2021 “The human presence” Gaucin exhibition
2019 Art Gaucin
2018 Art Gaucin
2017 Art Gaucin
Sydney, Australia
2017 Artist Showcase – Dr Zachariah Surgery
2016 Solo Exhibition -“Harbour Bridge Views” – Potts Point
Finalist, Art Prize – Waverley
Finalist, Art Prize – Hunters Hill
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
2010 Group Arts Exhibition – Waverley
Group Show – Gallery 307 – Northbridge
2009 Group Arts Exhibition – Waverley
2008 Group Arts Exhibition – Waverley
New Zealand
2020 Residency in Auckland, New Zealand.
1998 Bachelor of Fine Arts Graduate (Elam Fine Arts School, Auckland University)
Sian Faber artworks are held in private collections in America, Australia, New Zealand, UK, Italy, France & Spain.
