SILVA COCO 2026.
Silva Coco is a London-based artist, designer, and creative director whose work spans fashion artefact, publishing, video, and event-based practice. 

She is the founder and editor of Plates of Meat magazine, an independent publication operating across print, film, and live formats to document and provoke contemporary youth culture.

Alongside editorial and video work, her practice includes an ongoing material investigation into footwear and bodily artefacts, using processes such as casting, mark-making, and complex construction to explore repair, identity, and ontological instability. This research-led approach sits in tension with commercial and collaborative projects, allowing experimental making to inform applied design contexts without collapse into branding or spectacle.

SILVA COCO 2026
Silva@silvacoco.com

2026.THE ITCH

SILVA COCO
2026
Footwear

Images: Joel Kerr
Styling: Edie Ashley
Talent: Mimiko Mcveigh



THE ITCH is a fashion artefact project exploring ontological instability and recursive identity through bodily-adjacent objects. Working primarily through footwear and hybrid forms, the project uses self-casting, graphite mark-making, and repetitive surface abrasion to examine narcissism, compulsion, and creative survival. Graphite operates as both drawing and residue, binding body, object, and gesture into artefacts that resist resolution and continually refer back to their own making.

A FILM BY JOEL KERR AND SILVA COCO
2025.PLATES OF MEAT ISSUE 9

Silva Coco
English / Italian
2025
Publication

244 x 288mm
150 pp. Softcover


ISSUE 9 - THE FEAR ISSUE GOD SPITS OUT THE LUKEWARM is an exploration of fear, ambivalence, and refusal in contemporary youth culture. Through interviews, artwork, and editorials, the issue interrogates moral indecision, spiritual nausea, and the discomfort of standing for nothing, assembling voices that reject or embrace neutrality in favour of nothing in particular.


2025TON MAGAZINE ISSUE 5

JERMAINE GALLAGHER
English
2025
Publication

246 x 292 mm
522 pp. Softcover


HARDLY A SAINT. An observational and intimate essay on Carlos Solrac’s domestic and studio environments in Fuerteventura, examining authorship, material process, and the ideological weight of lived-in interiors through close, embodied description. IMAGES BY DEXTER LANDER. 

2025THE MAGIC THEATRE

Silva Coco, Freddie Bannister, Zolforosso
Venice
2025
Exhibition

246 x 292 mm
522 pp. Softcover


THE MAGIC THEATRE - was curated and produced just outside of the Venice Biennale period, presenting Freddie Bannister’s work within an international, independent exhibition context. Collaborating with venice based artist collectice Zolforosso, The exhibition centres on a glum British skyline—muted, peripheral, and emotionally charged—set in deliberate contrast to Venice’s saturated historic backdrop. This tension produces a sense of intrigue and longing, positioning British youth culture as introspective rather than spectacular. Operating through decentralised collaboration and publishing-led curatorial practice, the project foregrounds peripheral landscapes and informal networks as sites of cultural possibility beyond dominant institutional narratives.

2025THERE’S A LITTLE MAN IN THE POOL TABLE (TODAY)

Silva Coco
Mimiko Mcveigh
2025
Video


VHS

2024CELESTE EVERYDAY

SILVA COCOEnglish2024
Publication

A5
12 pp. Zine

A Record Store Day 2024 exclusive zine produced for British singer-songwriter Celeste, celebrating the release of her single. Launched at Rough Trade West, the publication assembles images, scans, notes, and miscellaneous objects gathered throughout the song’s making, presenting the creative process as an intimate, material archive rather than a finished narrative.

2025.MONKEY PAW

SILVA COCO
2025.
Footwear

Vegetable Tanned Leather
Black cotton dyed thread
Plaster insert

Vegetable-tanned leather shoes, hand-crafted to render the foot as a hand rather than toes. Titled Monkey Paw, the project draws on evolutionary regression and a return to the ground, using wet-moulded leather to operate as an analogue for skin. The deliberately complex construction foregrounds making as tension, producing an object that sits uneasily between anatomy, tool, and artefact.

2025.SEX BRAND™ 

SILVA COCO
2025.
CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT

Brand Packaging
Marketing

Concept Development and Packaging design for SEX BRAND™, developed using 100% plant-based biodegradable plastic pouches and fully biodegradable condom wrappers. The project balances material responsibility with a direct, unapologetic visual language, treating sustainable packaging not as a virtue signal but as an industrial design constraint to be worked through.

2025.VANS X LIU 

SILVA COCO
2025.
Video

VHS, MiniDV

VHS-shot interview film produced for Life Is Unfair x Vans, capturing the event through lo-fi documentation. The project uses the material limits of tape—distortion, loss, and texture. Registering the social atmosphere of the night, 

2025.PRINTCESS

ARCHIE HYDE
English
2025
Publication

A4
Colored card stock
60 pp. Softcover


Contribution to Printcess, an installation at Waste Store London that transformed printed coloured card stock into an active, participatory environment. Sheets were strung across the space, inviting visitors to crawl, gather, assemble, and bind their own publications, collapsing the distance between printing, distribution, and authorship.

2024.MIMIKO AND THE CRUSTY BOYS. STARFACE.

STARFACE
English
2024
VIDEO

Mini DV


A satirical commercial produced for Starface to launch their lip balms. The film follows a young woman searching for the perfect lips to kiss, encountering only chapped mouths until she ultimately discovers her own, reframing self-consumption and desire through humour and cosmetic ritual.

2024.WATSE OF MEAT

Silva Coco 
2024
Exhibition

Waste Store London


WASTE OF MEAT - was a group exhibition curated by Silva Coco in collaboration with Waste Store, an independent community space and retail project in Hackney that champions handmade, DIY, and artist-produced goods within an eclectic, non-hierarchical environment. The exhibition brought together work by Freddie Bannister, Skye Matthews, Chiara Gabillini, Meg Wells, and others, activating the store’s ethos of discovery and grassroots creativity to explore materiality, excess, and cultural value at the intersection of art and independent making.

2024.THANX 4 THE W8 PARTY

Silva Coco 
2024
Video

Mini DV


THANX FOR THE W8 - , produced in collaboration with Atomiser, took place at Loki in Brixton and combined live performance with participatory installation. The event featured a fully functioning photobooth alongside performances by artists and musicians including Charlie Osborne, Sabrina Fuentes, Bunny Grinder, and The Femcels. Bringing together disparate yet interconnected touchstones of niche youth culture, the night staged the venue as an active social and cultural site rather than a passive performance space.

2024.PLATES OF MEAT ISSUE 8

Silva Coco
English
2024
Publication

244 x 288mm
90 pp. Softcover


ISSUE 8 - SORRY FOR THE W8 - is a compilation of previously unpublished submissions from earlier issues of the publication, also titled The Wait List. The issue adopts a deliberately under-curated approach, assembling a collaged jumble of reader interests and contributions, presented through the polished conventions of a traditional high-gloss magazine format.

2024.GOD’S DINNER

SILVA COCO
2024.
Video

VHS, MiniDV

GOD’S DINNER is a VHS-based video work incorporating MiniDV footage, staging a young, ravenous woman in an escalating feast that culminates in the consumption of her own hand. The piece explores youth, beauty, and excess through the bodily sensation of taste and its collapse into tastelessness, using analogue degradation to heighten the tension between desire, self-consumption, and loss of control.



       The adjoining photo series, published in 2024, features photography by Lara              Hughes with creative direction by Silva Coco.