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Adi Toch (born 1979) is a Metal Artist and lecturer, living and working in London.

Her work explores the visual language of metal through colour, movement, sound and tactility. She makes engaging objects that investigate the embodiment of vessels and containers. These communicate through their sensory qualities and invites the observer to pick them up and look closely. Beginning with a flat sheet, Toch forms and fabricates metal into hollow forms, using the ancient craft of raising (metalworking). She creates unique surfaces through texturing, colouring and patination.

Toch comments that, ‘Vessels are an innate method of communication. They convey a story of gathering, holding, storing… The practice of making vessels enables me to work both with metal and space as materials, thereby redefining these borders.’

Many of Toch’s projects engage the viewer by sensorial interaction through play in perception, movement or investigation of embodied experience. She is interested in the relationships that people form with objects around them.

Her work is exhibited internationally and included in major public collections such as the Victoria and Albert Museum, National Museums Scotland, National Museum Cardiff and The Jewish Museum New York. In 2017, she was shortlisted for The Loewe Craft Prize and won a Wallpaper* Design Award. And in 2018 Toch won the European Prize for Applied Arts in Belgium for her installation Talk to Me.

Toch is a visiting lecturer at The Royal College of Art, Edinburgh College of Art and Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. She speaks regularly at conferences in the UK and internationally. Recent workshops and talks include: National Museum Northern Ireland, National Museums Scotland, The Holburne Museum Bath, Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, The Goldsmiths’ Company London, Konstfack university of Arts Stockholm, Escola Massana Barcelona, Glasgow School of Art, Ulster University, Sheffield Hallam University, Shenkar College of Design Tel-Aviv.