Urara Tsuchiya

Urara Tsuchiya (b.1979) is an artist based in Glasgow. She holds an MFA from Glasgow School of Art and has studied BA fine Art at Goldsmiths University, London. Her expansive practice spanning intricately constructed ceramics, immersive installations, costume, performance and video– is united by its subversion of kitsch or quotidian objects. Her work, seemingly playful at first, has undercurrents questioning boundaries of acceptability, tensions in relationships, and traditional patriarchal structures. She is best known for her hand-painted ceramics with explicit motifs, exploring the space between the surrealistic and the ordinary, and the humorous strangeness within this. Solo exhibitions and presentations include Frieze, London (2019); Liste Art Fair, Basel (2018); TRADE gallery, Nottingham (2016).