Adi Toch | b. 1979

Adi Toch is an artist metalsmith exploring the morphological qualities of vessels and objects around us. Her artworks engage the viewer through sensorial interaction, play in perception, movement or investigation of embodied experience. Often beginning with a flat sheet, Toch forms and fabricates metal into delicate hollow objects. She creates unique visual language through intricate surface marks and patination.

Toch lives and works in London. She is a lecturer at the RCA and has taught and exhibited across the world. Her work is held in major private and public collections including the V&A Museum in London, The Crafts Council, The Goldsmiths’ Company, Museum of London, Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, National Museums Scotland, National Museum Wales, Ulster Museum Belfast and The Jewish Museum New York.

Toch was a finalist in the first Loewe Craft Prize and won prestigious awards for her work including a Gold Award from The Goldsmiths’ Craft and Design Council UK and The European Prize for Applied Arts, 2018. In 2021 she was the recipient of an important commission by the V&A Gilbert Trust to create a response to the restitution of an historic gold ewer from The Gilbert Collection to Turkey. Her artwork Place to Place is on permanent display at The Gilbert Galleries, V&A Museum, London.