Silvia engages with subjects of beauty, the precious and the grotesque, the heritage and the future, in detailed and complex ways using various media. Originally from Germany, she has an applied art background in traditional gold and silversmithing. Silvia undertook a three-year silversmithing apprenticeship before studying Jewellery at the University of Art and Design Burg Giebichenstein Halle in Germany. Combining her traditional expertise with new technologies of the haptic arm and 3D printing, learnt during her MA at the Royal College of Art, she innovates and revels in new possibilities of making which she calls 'digital craft'. These new tools and methods of thinking and making have led to interesting collaborations such as working with architects, filmmakers, SHOWstudio, Vogue, Design Museum London, the Sir John Soane Museum London, BMW Munich and Microsoft Research Cambridge,Victoria and Albert Museum London.

Education:
Royal College of Art, London MA GSM&J 2009

University of Art and Design Burg Giebichenstein, Halle Diploma Jewellery, 2009

College for Glass and Jewellery, Neugablonz silversmith apprenticeship, 2003
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2013
Level 3 & 4 Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector, City & Guilds, London

2011
Preparing to Teach,
Royal College of Art, London
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Teaching:
2013 -
Visiting Lecturer – School of Material, MA Jewellery & Metal, Royal College of Art, London

2015 -2017
Visiting Lecturer und RAP-Tutor,
BA Jewellery Design, University of the Arts, Central Saint Martins, London

2015
Sessional Lecturer – Digital and Creative Technologies, Jewellery, Barnet and Southgate College, London

2014
Jewellery Tutor, Adult and Community Education, Hackney Community College, London

2013 -2017
Visiting Lecturer – BA 3D Design & Craft, London Metropolitan University, The Sir John Cass Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design, London

2011-2017
Jewellery Tutor, Jewellery department, Contemporary Crafts, City Lit, London

SW has conducted numerous workshops and talks across design, art and fashion in traditional techniques, new technologies and new ways of thinking at The Goldsmiths' Centre, Camberwell College of Arts, Design School Kolding, Alchimia Florence, AMD Akademie Mode & Design, Hochschule Düsseldorf and University of Art, Hochschule Trier and Design Burg Giebichenstein Halle.

SW has taken part in Symposia at the Design Museum London, the Science Museum London, the V&A London, The Sir John Soane Museum London, Onassis Cultural Centre Athens, Creative Business Week Munich, Jewellery Symposium Zimmerhof, 3D Printshow Paris and TCT Fair Birmingham.