Silvio Severino is a contemporary photographer, illustrator and collage artist born in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and now based in Cork in the Republic of Ireland.
He studied photography and photojournalism while living in London and developed a photographic practice, but soon found himself drawn to the expanded creative opportunities of collage and began exhibiting his collage work.
He has been a participating member of the Collagistas, an international annual festival of collage, since 2014 and in 2018 helped to organise the Irish iteration of the festival in Dublin.
Collaboration is one of the cornerstones of Silvio’s practice; having lived in and photographed a variety of European locations for 15 years before making Ireland his home, he is now embedding himself in the Irish arts community and expanding his interdisciplinary arts practice as well as his curatorial practice.
In October 2019 he curated the group show Entre Mundos/Between Worlds: Images of Life between Mexico and Ireland in conjunction with University College Cork’s Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies at Cork City Library.
One of his works is on permanent display in Cork City Library’s Rory Gallagher Music Library.
His recent work has included animation for award-winning short documentary Vonnie — Ireland’s Forgotten Fashion Icon and illustration for Before the Rainbow…..and After, an arts engagement and book with older gay men at Gay Project.
In 2022 he curated the New Reality Festival of Contemporary Collage at Market House Craftworks in Cappoquin, Co Waterford and curated the New Reality Contemporary Collage exhibition in St Peter’s exhibition centre in Cork City. The latter is due a second outing in Dublin’s Gallery X in February 2023.
Silvio Severino is a contemporary photographer, illustrator and collage artist born in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and now based in Cork in the Republic of Ireland.
He studied photography and photojournalism while living in London and developed a photographic practice, but soon found himself drawn to the expanded creative opportunities of collage and began exhibiting his collage work.
He has been a participating member of the Collagistas, an international annual festival of collage, since 2014 and in 2018 helped to organise the Irish iteration of the festival in Dublin.
Collaboration is one of the cornerstones of Silvio’s practice; having lived in and photographed a variety of European locations for 15 years before making Ireland his home, he is now embedding himself in the Irish arts community and expanding his interdisciplinary arts practice as well as his curatorial practice.
In October 2019 he curated the group show Entre Mundos/Between Worlds: Images of Life between Mexico and Ireland in conjunction with University College Cork’s Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies at Cork City Library.
One of his works is on permanent display in Cork City Library’s Rory Gallagher Music Library.
His recent work has included animation for award-winning short documentary Vonnie — Ireland’s Forgotten Fashion Icon and illustration for Before the Rainbow…..and After, an arts engagement and book with older gay men at Gay Project.
In 2022 he curated the New Reality Festival of Contemporary Collage at Market House Craftworks in Cappoquin, Co Waterford and curated the New Reality Contemporary Collage exhibition in St Peter’s exhibition centre in Cork City. The latter is due a second outing in Dublin’s Gallery X in February 2023.