Adi Toch
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BIOGRAPHY
Toch is a London-based artist metalsmith and lecturer at the Royal College of Art whose work is held in major private and public collections including the V&A Museum, The Crafts Council, The Goldsmiths’ Company, the Museum of London, the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, Birmingham Museum, National Museums Scotland, National Museum Wales, the Ulster Museum Belfast and The Jewish Museum New York. A finalist in the inaugural Loewe Craft Prize, she has received numerous awards including a Gold Award from The Goldsmiths’ Craft and Design Council and the European Prize for Applied Arts (2018). In 2021 she was commissioned by the V&A Gilbert Trust to create Place to Place, a work responding to the restitution of a historic gold ewer from the Gilbert Collection to Turkey, now permanently displayed in the V&A’s Gilbert Galleries.
Working with the vessel as her primary form, Toch begins with a flat sheet of metal and fabricates delicate hollow objects using traditional tools and hammers. Through a labour-intensive process of hand texturing and patination she develops intricate, calligraphic surface patterns and internal compositional contrasts. The interiors of her pieces are treated in diverse ways to reveal the sensory qualities of the material: some are polished to a mirror-like finish that reflects their surroundings, while others contain gemstones that roll gently when handled, producing a subtle sound that captures the lyrical musicality of metal.
Toch’s poetic Shrouded series further explores nature’s own mark-making. After shaping each vessel, she buries it in the earth, relinquishing control to mud, water, minerals and air. Over several months these subterranean forces create shifting, polychromatic patinas, a process and outcome that evoke human experiences of endurance, transformation and emergence.
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Works
Adi Toch
Shrouded, 2023Silver plated copper alloy
buried for 6 months13 H x 25 W x 25 D cm
5.1 H x 9.8 W x 9.8 D inFurther images
SIGNATURE WORKSInstallation ShotsEXHIBITONS
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Seeing the Forest for the Trees at Masterpiece 2022
30 June - 6 July 2022Seeing the Forest for the Trees is an evolving discussion, a dramatic visual argument for entwining the philosophy of environmental sustainability with high-end design and a tactile connection to the... -
Collections
Silver Jubilee Exhibition 24 June - 15 October 2023We will be marking our Silver Jubilee this June - 25 incredible years of Sarah Myerscough Gallery - with the exhibition ‘Collections,’ an immersive and representative curation of our key... -
PAD London
Art Fair 10 - 15 October 2023At PAD London we will showcase ‘Chamber’, a global survey of material-led, specialist endemic design. Chamber speaks to the abundance of the earth from which our artist-designer-makers sustainably source and... -
Organic Futures: PAD London
8 - 13 October 2024 -
Intersection | PAD Paris 2025
2 - 6 April 2025 -
Landmarks | TEFAF Maastricht 2025
15 - 20 March 2025 -
Earth To Earth
Solo Exhibition 22 November 2023 - 27 January 2024
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