Tristan Hoare is delighted to present Still Life, a solo exhibition of Kaori Tatebayashi’s ceramics and our second collaboration in Fitzroy Square. In Still Life, Tatebayashi steps away from the floral ‘cultivated’ garden, presented to audiences in The Walled Garden in April 2020, into a botanical vision focusing on wild plants which will reclaim the gallery’s Georgian rooms, immersing viewers in a still-life installation.
Ceramics and the natural world have consistently been Tatebayashi’s passion. Modelling by hand and using a metal knife she made in art school, Tatebayashi sculpts unglazed white stoneware plants with startling precision. Her work combines the academic observation of scientific specimens with the feel and movement of an artist responding to the natural world. She only works from life, never from memory or photographs, creating portraits of plants and flowers gathered in her studio. Tatebayashi fires her ceramics unglazed, accentuating the plant’s natural forms.