Daniel Silver
British sculptor
Daniel Silver; (born 1972) is an artist living in London.
Life and career
Silver was born in London. Silver studied at the Slade School of Art (BA Fine Art, 1999). He received his MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art, London in 2001. He went on to study sculpture in Italy at the British School at Rome in 2002. He has exhibited across the UK and internationally. Silver is represented by Frith Street Gallery London.
Work
Silver's work includes sculpture, painting, drawing and installation. His work draws from ancient sculptural archetypes and modernist sculptors, like Jacob Epstein and Henri Gaudier-Brzeska.
Despite its references to figurative sculptural traditions, the former director of the Museu Nacional de Belas Artes (Rio de Janeiro) Paulo Herkenhoff described Daniel Silver’s sculpture as a “dyslexic body” which “refuses to follow a canon, or an established grammar which builds meanings, or work in pre-mapped territory”.
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