Polly Pocket series, 2024
Urara Tsuchiya challenges the viewer to negotiate their own physical and emotional boundaries through creating miniature ceramic worlds that we’re invited into.
Here we find her exploring her childhood fascination with Polly Pocket toys – a place reassuringly familiar and safe place to return to.The dolls that usually inhabit these fold-up homes are absent, now replaced by the artist’s exquisitely crafted ceramic lingerie left nearby – a stand in for the artist’s body, and perhaps her desire to be part of these miniature worlds.
Recent exhibitions include Angel Pocket, Union Pacific, London (2024): Comfortable hole, bye, Parcel Tokyo, Japan (2023): Glasgow International (2021); Homeplace, V.O. Curations, London (2021); Homebound, ADA, Rome, Italy (2021); Frieze Art Fair, London (2019); Room Service, Union Pacific, London (2016).
To find out more: https://www.unionpacific.co.uk/artists/urara-tsuchiya/