Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel
Daniel Dewar born 1976 in Forest of Dean, United Kingdom.
Grégory Gicquel born 1975 in St. Brieuc, France.
Working together since 1998, Daniel Dewar and Grégory Gicquel make sculpture rooted in handcraft. Embroidery and quilting, wood-fired stoneware, oak and marble carving, silk painting — they take up techniques rarely associated with contemporary sculpture and push them to monumental scale, producing each work themselves over weeks or months. Farm animals, local plants, body fragments, household objects: these appear and reappear in their oeuvre, summoned out of materials that hold their own kinship to nature. Across the work, the dignity of labor sits alongside the eccentricity of the image.
"Daniel Dewar and Grégory Gicquel's collaborative art practice evokes a contemporary pastoral world through a monumental approach to craft practices." – Kevin Gallagher
Their work has been exhibited at the Centre Pompidou, Paris; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Musée Rodin, Paris; Z33 House for Contemporary Art, Hasselt; MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome; Culturgest, Lisbon; the Secession, Vienna; Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden; Kunsthalle Basel; Portikus, Frankfurt; Kunstinstituut Melly (formerly Witte de With), Rotterdam; KIOSK, Ghent; Wiels Contemporary Art Center, Brussels; the Van Buuren Museum & Gardens, Brussels; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; and CAPC, Bordeaux. They have participated in the Biennale de Lyon and the Yokohama Triennial, and in 2012 they were awarded the Prix Marcel Duchamp.
In 2023, The Bidet and the Jar, curated by Luca Lo Pinto, opened at MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome. In 2025, Z33 House for Contemporary Art, Hasselt, presented The Wet Wing, curated by Kevin Gallagher, for which the duo produced a monumental silk painting alongside new marble and stoneware works.
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Vita
Daniel Dewar Lives and Works in Brussels, Belgium Born 1976 in Forest of Dean, United Kingdom
Grégory Gicquel Lives and Works in Plevenon, France Born 1975 in St. Brieuc, France
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Upcoming Plants & People, Frac des pays de la loire, Carquefou & Musée d'art de Nantes, Nantes
2026 Skin, Scales, Shells, The Marnix, Brussels 2025 Art Basel Unlimited The Wet Wing, Z33, Hasselt 2024 Coquilles et feuilles de choux, Palais Jacques Cœur, Bourges The Weaver and the Spoke, Antenna Space, Shanghai
2023 The Bidet and the Jar, MACRO - Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome The Needle and the Chisel, Clearing, Brussels
2022 Oiled Oak Bodies and Cinnabar Stitches, Jan Kaps, Cologne The Nude and the Wood, Culturgest, Lisbon Interspecific Bodies, Mendes Wood DM, Sao Paulo
2021 Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Secession, Vienna Wings, Petals, Toes, Clearing, Beverly Hills
2020 Nudes, Van Buuren Museum & Gardens, Brussels Animals and Sculpture, Clearing, Brussels
2019 Fantasmes Mammifères, Biennale de Lyon - Musée d'Art Contemporain, Lyon Mammalian Fantasies, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel Body of Work, Jan Kaps, Cologne L'eau des Limbes, Galerie Raymond Hains, Saint-Brieuc
2018 Rosa Aurora Rosa, Clearing, New York
2017 The Mammal and The Sap, Portikus, Frankfurt Le Nu et la roche, HAB Galerie, Nantes The Nude and The Sap, Witte de With, Rotterdam
2016 Stoneware Murals, Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris, Stoneware Murals and Vessels, Tapestries and Wood Carvings, Jan Kaps, Cologne Digitalis, Kiosk, Ghent
2015 Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Front Desk Apparatus, New York Stoneware Murals, Ètablissement d'en Face, Brussels
2014 Daniel Dewar & Grégory Gicquel, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Brussels La Jeune Sculpture, Musée Rodin, Paris
2013 Le Hall, Espace 315, Centre Pompidou, Paris Jus d'Orange, Palais de Tokyo, Paris Mr. I / Dewar & Gicquel, Graff Mourgue d'Algue, Geneva
2012 Crepe Suzette, Spike Island, Bristol
2011 Sculptures sur Bois, Tapisseries et Céramique, Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris
2008 Mason Massacre, Les Collections de St. Cyprien, St. Cyprien
2007 FRAC Basse-Normandie, Caen Chapelle du Geneteil, Centre d'art Contemporain, Chateau-Gontier, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2006 Hazelnut Cottage, Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris Strike a pose, VCA Margaret Lawrence Gallery, Melbourne Ukiyo-e, FRAC Pays de la Loire, Carquefou Driving in Abyss Behind a 2 Big Tits Lorry Truck Truck Mental Ray, École municipale des Beaux-arts / Galerie Edouard Manet, Gennevilliers
2004 (Da) Heavy Duty Self Made Material Boy Hardware Store, Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris
2003 Scierie Echo PKK, Public, Paris
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 Les énergies de la terre, Musée national Adrien Dubouché, Limoges Ouverture avant travaux, Fondation Kervahut, Lieu-dit Kervahut A Record of Temporary Conviction, C L E A R I N G, Los Angeles House Staging. Eye Level, MANIERA, Brussels International Creative Pattern Design Exhibition, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou City
2024 Keep See, Keep Seeing, G Museum, Nanjing
2023 House of Dreamers, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels Maiden Voyage, Clearing, New York The Memory Palace curated by Daria de Beauvais, Art Safari, Bucharest
2022 On Display, Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris
2021 Les Flammes, L'Age de la céramique, Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, Paris Boy Vereecken - Back Matter, MACRO - Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, Rome Models & Types, Office KGDVS, Brussels Out here in the wild oats amid the alien corn, Lantz’scher Skulpturenpark, Dusseldorf Often Vary Never Change, CLEARING, New York Portraiture One Century Apart, Massimo de Carlo, London Male Nudes: a salon from 1800 to 2021, Mendes Wood, Sao Paulo La diosa verde reloaded, Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Zapopan Grand Ménage, Clearing, Paris On Display, Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris Stoneware for a dwelling, Wilfried Lentz, Rotterdam Life on planet Orsimanirana, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg
2020 The Secret Life Of Lobsters, Clearing, Brussels Genève Sculpture Garden, Geneva Biennale, Genève Body. Gaze. Power. A cultural history of the bath, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden Life Still, Clearing, New York Anima Mundi, Abbaye Saint-Victor, Marseille
2019 Indus 2, Art Concept, Paris La Déesse Verte (curated by Dorothée Dupuis), El Dorado at Lille3000, Lille L'âge de raison, Clearing, Brussels
2018 Glaise Rousse (curated by Joël Riff), Moly-Sabata, Sablons Weaving / Braiding . . . when the sculpture scrolls, Villa Datris Foundation, L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue Sculpter (faire à l’atelier), La Criée, Rennes
2017 The Absent Museum, Wiels Contemporary Art Center, Brussels
2016 Pastoral Myths, La Loge, Brussels Figuration 1996 - 2016, Johan Berggren Gallery, Malmö A Scratching Not a Biting, Bureau, New York
2015 Words Aren't the Thing, CAC Vilnius Invitation au Voyage, Centrale for Contemporary Art, Brussels Deep Screen, Parc Saint-Léger, Pougues-Les-Eaux
2014 Petals On the Wind, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Brussels Play Time, Les Ateliers de Rennes - Biennale d'art Contemporaine, Rennes
2013 Labour and Wait, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara I Know You, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
2012 Lost in LA, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles Prix Marcel Duchamp, Grand Palais, Paris La Demeure Joyeuse II, Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich Conjuring for Beginners, Project Arts Space, Dublin Manufacture, Centre Pasquart, Bienne
2011 Manufacture II, John Hansard Gallery, Southamptoon Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama Museum of Art & NYK Waterfront Warehouse, Yokohama Manufacture, Parc Saint-Léger, Centre d'art Contemporain, Pougues-Les-Eaux Estate of Robert Filliou - Bob and Breakfast, Robert Filliou es ses invités par Francois Curlet, Galerie Nelson Freeman, Paris Echoes, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris Making is Thinking, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam
2010 Nos Meilleurs Souvenirs, Expérience Pommery #8, Domaine Pommer, Reims Dynasty, Palais de Tokyo, Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris / ARC, Paris Unto This Last, Raven Row, London
2009 La Force de l'art 02, Grand Palais, Paris Le Travail de la Rivière, La Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine Pragmatismus & Romantismus, Fondation d'Enterprise Ricard, Paris
2008 Chateau de Tokyo - Palais de Fontainebleau, Chatuea de Fontainebleau, Fontainebleau Less is Less, More is More, That's All!, CAPC, Bordeaux La Chute d'Eau, Circuit, LausanneE
2007 Hamsterwheel, Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse Ultramoderne, Nausbaum & Reding Art Contemporaine, Luxembourg New Economy, Artists Space, New York
2006 Suites Baroques, Les Instants Chaivrés, Montreuil Supernova. Expérience Pommery #3, Domaine Pommery, Reims Hradacany, La Générale, Paris