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Gabriel Hartley was born in 1981 in London, UK. He lives in Tokyo. 

He holds a BA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, and a Post Graduate Diploma in Fine Art from the Royal Academy Schools, London. Recent exhibitions include  “Pouch” (solo) Seventeen (2026, London), “Liquid Cities” collaborative paintings with Nick Goss Goya Curtain (2024, Tokyo ) “Floorlines” (solo), Seventeen (2024, London), “Stories from the Ground" Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens (2024, Deurle, Belgium), “Mosslight”(solo), HAGIWARA PROJECTS (2023, Tokyo), “Skies”(solo) Seventeen (2022, London), “ [FIGUR] by HAGIWARA PROJECTS” CADAN Yurakucho（ 2022, Tokyo), “Postcards” (solo), im labor (2021, Tokyo), “OF” Seventeen (2020, London), “Waterwood” Foxy Production (2019/2020, New York), “The Sleeping Procession” CASS Projects, Cass Sculpture Foundation (2018, Sussex), “Landscapes”, Seventeen (2018, London), “Reliefs”, Foxy Production (2016, New York), “A Rose Without a 'why', It blooms because it blooms”, Carl Freedman Gallery (2016, London), “Basic Instinct” Seventeen (2015, London) ,“Lozenges”, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery (2015, London).

His work is represented by Hagiwara Projects (Tokyo) and Seventeen (London).

mountaincutters (b. 1990) is a hybrid identity, an artist’s collective working in Brussels. With a focus on in-situ sculpture, they draw on the connection between human beings and the environments they inhabit. Their steel structures, glass elements, ceramics, fabrics and organic materials, as well as their poems and copper circuits form temporary ecosystems, in which energy is channeled between the human, the organic and the inanimate. 

Their work has been presented in solo exhibitions show at Meessen Gallery, Brussels (2024); Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2023); Centre d’Art, Neuchatel, CH (2022); Suprainfinit, Bucarest (2022), La Verrière Fondation Hermes, Brussels (2021); and in group shows in different institutions such as Wiels, Brussels (2025); Made in Cloister Foundation, Napoli (2025); Kindred Spirit, Lisbon (2024); Kyiv Biennal, Vienna (2023); Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, (2021). 

Their work is represented by Meessen Gallery (Brussels)

Hikari Ono was born in 1990 in Lüneburg (Germany). She currently lives in Tokyo.

Hikari Ono’s work consists mainly of small clay sculptures with minimal forms and a limited but delicate repertoire of colors; however, the apparent modesty and the obvious playfulness of these works do not hide their strong analytical ambition for long.

Through her practice of clay modeling alone, the most archaic and direct way of shaping a solid, the artist demonstrates her interest in returning to primary structures. Each piece is subject to only a few essential interventions such as laceration, grooving, crushing or spreading, and hollowing out or adding. Often these marks testify to the presence of her fingers, including their visible imprint. Ono’s works are fundamentally tactile, and not just because they are hand-sized.

What ultimately gives her pieces their ambiguity, and hence their power, is that they go beyond a strict exercise in deconstruction to dialogue with the realm of painting. The marks applied to the clay are reminiscent of a Baroque drapery or the vibrant surface of an abstract painting; they evoke Robert Ryman’s brushstroke, Lucio Fontana’s punctures or, more often than not, some other unidentified and happy pictorial invention. In this sense, although the artist is exploring the grammar of sculpture, she does so to have it speak the language of painting.

Hikari Ono is represented by XYZ Collective (Tokyo)