Silo Studio

Attua Aparicio Torinos is a London based Spanish artist. She graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2011 from MA Design Products. She explores the area where design, craft and art meet.

In 2011 she co-founded Silo studio with Oscar Lessing. Silo’s work is a mix of craft and technology, which aims to find new ways of making by adopting a hands-on approach.

By keeping their developments open and sharing it in videos and workshops they seek to inspire people to question how things are made and to make more for themselves.

Attua Aparicio Torinos and Oscar Lessing, Future Heritage 2016 Alumni

Attua also collaborates on a regular basis with her sister Saelia. They collaborate for a long time, but not officially until last year when they presented the show your consequences have actions, at the Tetley, Leeds, UK and cadena atrófica, at cpdc, Murcia, Spain.

In 2018 Attua went to the EKWC -European Keramic Work Centre- to develop a solo project: Ceramic & Glass. Her project begun at glass artist and partner Jochen Holz’s bin. Frustrated with the fact that the borosilicate glass can not be recycled and powered with an innate prejudice-free view of materials, Attua decided to use the glass shards as a raw material.

At the beginning of 2019 she was invited to do a 3 month residency at Jingdezhen International Studio, China. In Jingdezhen she scaled up and continuing with Ceramic & Glass. She is explored form by hand building, used borosilicate for slip casting and for glazing, and only used porcelain as clay body. She also worked with local masters to get to know and utilise the wide variety of skills available at the porcelain capital of the world.

Attua likes to work with a wide variety of materials. From working with plastics she enjoyed the feel of using something very new, still with plenty of room for development for artistics applications. She especially enjoyed using industrial materials in different ways that they have been designed for. But due to environmental concerns she never felt totally comfortable about the use of plastics on her work. That’s how she started working with ceramics. The vast history of ceramics, as well as its endless possibilities and the alchemy of it, have hooked Attua.

Expresive Proverbs By Silo Studio

At Future Heritage

For Future Heritage as part of silo studio, they developed a process to dyed marble and they made 2 coffee tables. They also presented some Newtons buckets.

“Being exposed to a completely new audience and discovering beautiful Richmond.” - Attua Aparicio Torinos

Current work

As part of Silo Studio they did The Wealdstone Youth Workshop, a public design project with a group of 17- and 18-year olds in Wealdstone, Harrow, north-west London, who were brought together by regeneration agency Spacemakers to design and make public furniture for use across their community. For nine months in 2017-18, they led the youth through a programme of workshops to create, prototype and test a design. The Wealdstone Leg is their response: a modular furniture component, manufactured in England, which has been used to create a range of stools, benches and chairs for use at temporary events in the forthcoming Wealdstone Square.
The Wealdstone leg has been recently acquired by the V&A and will be on display from June 2020.

With her personal practice: In 2019 Attua Aparicio was invited to a three-month residency in Jingdezhen, China. That culminated in a travelling exhibition in China and the Netherlands.

In summer 2020 Attua Aparicio has been invited to do a 4 weeks residency at Cove Park.

Newtons Buckets By Silo Studio

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