Akiko Horiuchi
Stephanie Quayle
「 Concrete Jungle 」
November 30 ( Tue ) - December 19 ( Sun ), 2021
at CADAN Yurakucho
Japanese Macaque I, 2021
48x33x27 cm
Gallery 38 is pleased to present "Concrete Jungle" by Stephanie Quayle at CADAN YURAKUCHO.
Born and raised on the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea, Quayle continues to live and work on this natural island. Quayle's work focuses on the inherent power of nature in both humans and animals, its strength, humility, wonder and wisdom, and the way in which confronting it can remind us of our own smallness, as well as our connection to the natural world and the gap between us.
Quayle makes a number of sketches before taking the clay into her hands. In this way, she gets inside the animals and tries to understand them more deeply. She says that the more she draws, the quicker she can bring the animals to life when she is working with clay. After experimenting with different materials, Quayle finally chose clay: "Clay is the material that I feel most allows me to connect with animals . The mud , the earth, the ground itself, renders every trace , every moment and every thought solid."
In this way, her sculptures are three-dimensional drawings, in which all the traces of the making process are preserved.
“ A troop of Snow Monkeys invade the stark white man made space of a gallery; untamed and unruly they run havoc, yet as yet gaze upon them, it is we the viewer that seems the more uncivilised & un natural.
The Japanese Macaque has been a prominent feature in religion, folklore, and Art, from sacred mediators between Gods and human, as a source of good luck and superstition to the trickster, guardian and healer.
Vigorously made sculptures drawn in clay capture the raw essence of these iconic creatures. Familiar yet distinct, so akin to ourselves that they remind us of our vital place and role in nature.”
Stephanie Quayle
We live in a modern world where we have less and less contact with the earth, where we live surrounded by concrete roads and buildings, where we are constantly humanising and anthropomorphising animals, where we are trapped by the obvious differences between them and us. And the more we destroy the environment we share, the more we lose the animals that are so vital and important in defining who we are, and the more we move away from the wild and from who we naturally are.
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Photography : Osamu Sakamoto
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Stephanie Quayle
Born, lives and works between the Isle of Man and London
1982 Boan in Isle of Man
2005 Slade School of Art, London. BA (Hons) Fine art (Sculpture)
2007 Royal College of Art, London. MA Fine Art Sculpture. MA
Selected Exhibitons:
2021 ‘Human & Animal’
(Museum of Modern Ceramic Art Gifu / The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park / Iwate Museum Of Art (2022))
2021 ‘Drawings’ (Gallery 38, Tokyo)
2020 KAMU kanazawa (Permanent Exhibition)
2019 ‘Bear Nature’ (Gallery 38, Tokyo)
2018 ‘IN THE SNOW’ ( Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury )
‘ANIMALS & US’ (Turner Contemporary, Margate )
2017 ‘WILD: UNTAMED MIND’ ( 21_21 Design Sight Museum, Tokyo)
‘Sculptural Ceramics and Stone’ ( Pangolin Gallery, London)
‘URBAN JUNGLE’ ( Gallery38, Tokyo)
Pangolin Gallery Spring Group Show, London
‘Jenga’ (Fitzrovia Chapel)
and more….
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Exhibition detail:
Stephanie Quayle
[ Concrete Jungle ]
Date : November 30 (Thu) - December 19 (Sun), 2021
Place : CADAN YURAKUCHO (1F 1-10-1 Yurakucho, Chiyoda-ku Tokyo)
Hours : Tue - Fri 11:00 - 19:00 / Sat, Sun 11:00 - 17:00
Closed on : Mon and National Holidays
Curated by : Gallery 38
Email : contact@gallery-38.com
⚫There will also be a pop-up exhibition at Dover Street Market Ginza 7F BIBLIOTHECA, where Stephanie Quayle's large-scale sculpture is displayed on the ground floor.
Date : December 3 (Fri) - December 30 (Thu), 2021
Place : Dover Street Market Ginza 7F ( GinzaKomatsu West, 6-9-5, Ginza, Chuo-ku Tokyo)
Hours : Mon - Sun 11:00 - 20:00
Cooperated by : limArt / Gallery 38