Salvia (artist)

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Salvia
Born (2000-08-18) August 18, 2000 (age 24)
Cyffylliog, Denbighshire, Wales
Nationality Welsh
Website https://instagram.com/salvia001011

Salvia (born 2000) is a Welsh drag artist, performance artist, designer, and FX artist. Based in Cyffylliog, Denbighshire, [1] She first garnered attention from fashion names such as Rick Owens [2] and Vogue [3] [4] for her outlandish and alien like looks and Instagram [5] posts. She collaborated with Rick Owens for his autumn/winter 2019 collection runway, [2] working on prosthetics and makeup for the models. She often closely works with other artists such as Jazmin Bean and Parma Ham, creating performance art videos and art installations, however her main platform is Instagram, [5] which she uses to showcase her work and drag looks.

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Early life

Growing up in a small village in North Wales, Salvia accounts being bullied at a young age, and finding solace and inspiration from artists such as Leigh Bowery, Lady Gaga, and fashion designer Alexander McQueen. Around the age of 13, she began creating drawings and paintings inspired by sci fi and futuristic visuals, eventually moving on to using those visuals in her makeup and drag looks. [3]

Artistry

Salvia's work covers numerous mediums, such as photography, design, directing, graphic design, FX work, makeup artistry, styling, and film making. Photographer Rick Castro described her as "an influencer, a fashion icon, a beauty icon, a goth diva." In an interview with Document Journal, Salvia told Castro, "I know there’s people who masturbate to my pictures and it makes me laugh. For some reason, people are convinced I’m in congruence with the Illuminati and Satanism. I have no idea why, or what they even mean.." [6] [7] Her focus is creating edited photography of her fashion and makeup design, and she often struggles with her work being censored on online platforms due to her extremity. [3] Her main outcome with her work is to present alien and horror influenced visuals, through muted colour palettes, medical prosthetics, and often uncomfortable displays of humanity and biology. Salvia released a single in 2020 named "The Man who watches me sleep", [8] an ambient pop, darkcore song, which she has stated is inspired by her childhood. She uses sounds incorporated with horror in the song, using "frightful" sound to evoke fear in the listener. [8]

Nullo

Collaborating with artist Parma Ham, Salvia created Nullo, an inaugural runway show featuring fetishwear, fashion design, and performance art. [9] The show was created to "Redesign fetishwear and bodily augmentation for today’s posthuman tribes". Their aim with Nullo is to critique binaries, explore sexuality, and find new ways of experiencing the limits of the body. [10]

Rick Owens Autumn/Winter 2019

For the runway show of his Autumn/Winter 2019 show, fashion designer Rick Owens enlisted Salvia's help to transfer her otherworldly visuals to the models in the show, creating makeup inspired by and assisted by her, Salvia stating "Rick felt like my aesthetic would be very appropriate for his show; it was exciting to see my makeup brought to life on multiple models" [2]

The following year, Owens was criticized on social media by Salvia, for "borrowing heavily from the aesthetic of the teen" in his Spring/Summer 2020 show, in which Salvia was "not consulted or paid for her likeness in the show". [1]

Personal life

Salvia is a trans woman, and has stated "negative and immature reactions" to her work "are just one of the many signs of the ignorance and trans-misogyny that is still vastly present in society". [4]

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  3. 1 2 3 Posy Dixon (27 January 2020). "Inside Salvia's Extreme Beauty Routine". Youtube. Vogue. Retrieved 10 November 2021.
  4. 1 2 Liana Satenstein (27 February 2018). "Salvia Is the New Age Instagram Drag Star With a Fantastical Take on Reality". Vogue. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
  5. 1 2 Salvia. "001011_110100". Instagram. Salvia. Retrieved 10 November 2021.
  6. ↑ "Rick Castro captures Salvia as she's never been seen before". 21 July 2020.
  7. ↑ Rick Castro (21 July 2020). "Rick Castro captures Salvia as she's never been seen before". Document Journal. Tom Bailey. Retrieved 15 November 2021.
  8. 1 2 elijahsok, Txlenn (28 September 2020). "The man who watches me sleep". Genius. 2021 Genius Media Group Inc. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
  9. ↑ Parma Ham. "NULLO". Parma Ham TV. Parma Ham. Retrieved 3 December 2021.
  10. ↑ Fareed Kaviani (13 February 2020). ""To a lot of people my very existence is a provocation" meet Parma Ham: Artist, agitator, and curator of London's Wraith night". The 4th Wall. Fareed Kaviani. Retrieved 13 December 2021.
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