BIO

Sabina Silver is a Ghanaian-born, London-based artist working with painting, drawing and mixed media. Her practice explores Black interiority, emotional states and the spaces between memory, care and imagined futures. She works with gesture, symbolic portraiture and atmospheric colour to examine how emotion is carried through the body. Her work has been shown at Copeland Gallery, The Victoria and Albert Museum, The Africa Centre and the Eye Museum.

ARTIST STATEMENT

My practice explores Black interiority through symbolic portraiture, gesture and colour. I work between representation and abstraction, using partial visibility, atmosphere and psychological colour to reflect states of longing, care, vulnerability and imagined possibility. My paintings consider how emotion lives in the body and how softness, connection and introspection can be reimagined across diasporic experience. Recent works investigate themes of inherited heaviness, childhood memory and emotional safety, while newer paintings explore intimacy, adult interior life and the nonverbal communication held in posture and tone.