Kate Silver (Serebrianskaia) is a New Zealand-based artist originally from Siberia, Russia. Her work explores ways of capturing these fleeting moments of her own consciousness in painterly impressions of the surrounding world. Being into painting since her childhood but choosing foreign languages as her primary career path, Silver always knew that painting was her calling and something that she could not live without. Consequently, Silver had a chance to attend the Summer School at St.Petersburg Repin Academy of Fine Arts, where she studied classical drawing and oil painting, run by professors of the Academy. Later, Silver got a degree in Visual Arts that enriched her theoretical knowledge and improved her artistic skills.

Having followed a representative approach to art for a long time, Silver began feeling cramped in the existing framework and wanted to refresh the direction of her creative practice. So, getting the Master of Creative Practice Degree from Unitec Institute of Technology in July 2024 became a pivotal event in her personal and artistic life, allowing her to approach painting from a fundamentally different angle. Being taught within rigid rules of figurative painting and drawing in terms of composition, use of colour, form and accuracy of the image, Silver now strives to embody the elusive nature of a moment that slips away with each passing breath through acrylic inks and fluids.

Representation Artor Contemporary