Sylvie Pool Alvarez

About Sylvie -

Sylvie Pool Alvarez’s artistic journey began during her childhood in the Seychelles Islands in her grandmother’s pottery studio. She spent countless hours there—watching, touching clay, experimenting freely, and absorbing the tactile, intuitive way her grandmother approached creativity. Those early experiences shaped the foundation of her sculptural language: hands first, instincts forward, and an openness to exploration without rigid boundaries.

Her creative journey evolved through many three-dimensional media after she moved to the United States, including wax sculpture, stone carving, glass mosaics, wirework, beading, and polymer clay. She later spent almost fifteen years in Guam, where she taught art, completed her Master of Arts in Art at the University of Guam, and later served as an adjunct professor in sculpture and ceramics. Guam’s shorelines and natural environments had a lasting influence on her biomorphic language.

Currently based in Tampa, Florida, Sylvie is known for her biomorphic ceramic sculptures—sensual, fluid forms inspired by sea life, natural rhythms, and the organic movement of wind and water. She typically works with her bare hands, letting touch guide the emergence of each gesture and cur...

2022 - Ceramic workshop with Alberto Bustos, Gaya Ceramic Arts Center, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia

2019 - MA in Art with concentration in Sculpture and Ceramics, University of Guam, Guam

1995 - BA in English and French, Converse University, South Carolina, USA and Centre d’Avignon, France

2026

Through the Fire, LeMoyne Arts, Tallahassee, Florida, USA (group)
2024

Ripple Effect, Clay Center of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA (group)

2023

10th Arterial Fair, Eden Art Space, Eden Island, Seychelles (group)

Indigo Blue: Sacred Wisdom of Our Islands and Ocean – Austronesian International Arts Exhibition, The Hyatt Regency Guam, Guam (group)

LIGHT, Eden Art Space, Eden Island, Seychelles (group)

Curator's Pick, Issue 4 / Summer 2023, Women United Art Magazine

6th FLOWER International Juried Art Competition, virtual exhibition, Teravarna (group)

Animals, international virtual exhibition, Light Space & Time (group)

Animalia – International Virtual Exhibition, Art Fluent (group)

Untitled 3 – A New Exhibition of Seychelles Contemporary Art, Eden Art Space, Eden Island,
Seychelles (group)

Cross-Currents, 44th CLASS Annual Research Conference (ARC) Exhibition, Isla Center for the
Arts, Univ. of Guam, Guam (group)

2022

Imbentibu Famalao'an II, Lees-Reyes Gallery, Tumon Sands, Guam (group)

A Retrospective of Visual Arts at the University of Guam, 43rd CLASS Annual Research
Conference (ARC) Exhibition, Isla Center for the Arts, Univ. of Guam, Guam (group)

2020

Building Strength and Sovereignt...