Biografia
Silja Truus is an emerging sculptor living and working in London. She graduated from The University of Westminster with MA in Art and Media Practice and had her first solo exhibition in 2011. Her work has also been featured in several group shows, one of them in a Cork Street gallery in London.
Silja is an artist who poses questions that are concerned with our place in the world and the human condition at the most fundamental level. She endeavours to give a simple, iconic, and instinctually compelling form to concepts that have often been developed through extensive research and introspection. She often draws inspiration form the disciplines of existential psychology and Eastern philosophy. There is a certain physical, raw quality to her sculptures. They speak of the deeply emotional and meaningful experience that evokes resonance on the gut level.
Most of her work has both abstract and representational elements, and often contrasting materials and textures/colours. Silja works in a variety of media, including stone, steel, clay, bronze, and found objects – based on the principle that the characteristics of the materials will be carried into and become an inherent part in the final piece.
