Yoko Terauchi (born 1954) is an artist who makes sculpture and artists books, interested in concepts of the one, whole and interior and exterior.

Life and career

Terauchi was born in 1954 in

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, Japan. She studied at the Department of Art and Design at Women's Art University in Japan, completing her degree in 1977 and Graduate School in 1978. Terauchi then moved to

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, where she studied the Advanced Course in Sculpture course at Saint Martins' School of Art between 1979 and 1981. Terauchi has since continued to exhibit regularly in the UK and internationally, including in Japan where she returned to live. Her practice consists predominantly of sculptural installations and book works. She is currently holds a position of professor at Aichi University of the Arts, Tokyo. In 1984 Yoko Terauchi, at the request of

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and the Henry Moore Centre, spent a week in Leeds, UK, making a new piece of sculpture in Leeds Art Gallery. Terauchi made the new work publicly within the gallery space, interacting with visitors and school groups throughout the week who were able to ask questions about her working process. During this time she produced the work ''Hot Line 19,'' part of a series of works she made using industrial English telephone cables.

Publications

Terauchi published a number of artist books through the Coracle Press including ''One,'' 2012 -''Coil/Join,'' 1994 - ''Cuckoo,'' 1992 - ''Paper Wire and Lead'' ,1986. The book work ''Ebb and Flow,'' also produced by Coracle Press in 1988, is held by

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Sculpture Research Library Special Collections. ''Out of Mind Out of Sight,'' Published by

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and Chisenhale Gallery, Edinburgh/London, 1994. Exhibition catalogue for the exhibition that showed at both galleries.

Selected exhibitions

''London-Aichi,'' SAKURA AUA Gallery, Nagoya, Japan, 2019 ''Standing Point 1'', Keio University Art Centre, Tokyo, Japan, 2017 ''Schema – Sukima,'' Laure Genillard Gallery, London, UK, 2014 ''Aerial Tower'', Aichi University of the Art Satellite Gallery, Nagakute, Japan, 2010 ''Hot Line'', Museum für Post und Kommunikation, Berlin, Germany, 1996 ''Air Castle'', Chisenhale Gallery, London, UK, 1994 ''Sculptors at work'', Cathedral Precincts, Canterbury, UK, 1985 Pool: Yoko Terauchi,

South London Gallery The South London Gallery, founded 1891, is a public-funded gallery of contemporary art in Camberwell, London. Until 1992, it was known as the South London Art Gallery, and nowadays the acronym SLG is often used. Margot Heller became its direc ...

, London, UK, 1985 ''Making Sculpture'',

, Leeds, UK, 1984

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Terauchi, Yoko 1954 births Living people 20th-century Japanese women artists 21st-century Japanese women artists Alumni of Saint Martin's School of Art Artists from Tokyo Japanese women sculptors