Urara Tsuchiya
1979, Japan
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Urara Tsuchiya practice explores the disconcertion that can be found between the personal and social worlds. Her work includes ceramics, performances and videos. Her performances often incorporates costumes, installations, poetry, sound and home cooking. These function as props in an alternate environment that make space for different behavior. She works with the boundaries of, for example, animal/human and adult/baby to strange and humorous effect. She is interested in challenging the viewer to negotiate his or her own personal and physical boundaries. Best known for her hand-painted ceramic bowls with explicit motifs, Urara also explores more complex and surrealistic ceramic sculptures. The sculptures present realistic objects such as suitcases, underwear or toothbrushes, but with an explicit scenario such as a lamp that looks like a three with animals and naked humans climbing on it or a sauna with humans in sexual and intimate positions.
Tsuchiya (b. 1979, Japan) lives and works in Glasgow, Scotland. She did an MFA at Glasgow School of Art and studied fine Art at Goldsmiths University, London. Previous exhibitions includes a solo presentation at Frieze, London (2019), Glasgow International (2018), Trade Gallery (2017) and Union Pacific (2016). Selected upcoming exhibitions is among Ada Projects in Rome, Glasgow International and a group show at Vestfossen Kunstlaberatorium in Norway.
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Works

Tree Lamp
Glazed stoneware and lamp
54 x 42 x 42 cm

Tree Lamp
Glazed stoneware and lamp
50 x 32 x 40 cm

Go Down in a Tree
Glazed stoneware and lamp
33 x 26 x 28 cm

Beef Case
Glazed stoneware
12 x 42 x 32 cm

Sauna
Glazed stoneware
32 x 42 x 32 cm

Suitcase
Glazed stoneware
60 x 23 x 38 cm

Suitcase
Glazed stoneware
60 x 42 x 22 cm

From Marks & Spencer
Glazed stoneware
35 x 40 x 6 cm

Underwear (black & green)
Glazed stoneware
20 x 37 x 5.5 cm

Underwear (black)
Glazed stoneware
22 x 30 x 4 cm

Hot tub, 2020
Glazed stoneware
26 x 60 x 60 cm

Underwear (blue)
Glazed stoneware
23 x 27 x 6 cm
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EXHIBITIONS
2020
Glasgow Intrnational, Glasgow, GB-SCT (Upcoming)
Ada Project, Rome, IT (Upcoming)
Warm Drizzle, Galleri Golsa, Oslo, NO
Digestive Disaster, Lycky star, Stems Gallery, Bruxelles, BE
2019
Frieze London, Solo presentation, London, UK
2018
Liste Art Fair in Basel, solo presentation, Basel, CH
Girls Club, Glasgow International, Glasgow, GB-SCT
Hotel Contemporary, Green Park, London, UK
If you can‘t stand the heat, Roaming Projects
2017
LIT, Group show at Union Pacific, London, UK
Queer Art(ists) Now Presented by And What? Queer Arts Festival and Pilot PressComisisoned performance DRAF, London, UK
TRADE gallery, Nottingham, UK
Kevin Space, Vienna, AUS
2016
Room Service, Union Pacific, London, UK
Chataux Double Wide, collaboration with Zoe Williams, GI festival, Glasgow, GB-SCT
2015
You have been selected, Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Neo-pagan Witch Bitch, curated by France-lise and Lucy Stein, Evelyn Yard, London Eternal Bronzer, The Penarth Centre, London, UK
Atlantis Dinner with Paul Kindersley, Lotus land, Cambridge
2014
Chew Crew, Transition Gallery, London, England
EDUCATION
2014
BA Fine Art Goldsmiths University, London MFA at Glasgow School of Art