> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.catapult-platform.art/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Gillies Adamson Semple Builds Models Out of Studio Leftovers - URL: https://www.catapult-platform.art/gillies-adamson-semple-recordings-seoul/ - Published: 2026-10-29T15:04:00.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-29T15:03:59.000Z - Description: Explore Gillies Adamson Semple's Recordings at CAPTION in Seoul, where smoke-fired ceramics, oak and silver leaf form studio-born models. - Author: Dominique Catherina Foertig - Tags: Exhibition, Material & Sculpture, Sculpture & Installation, Seoul ## CAPTION Presents Recordings in Seoul [**CAPTION** ](https://captionseoul.com/?ref=catapult-platform.art)presents Recordings, a solo exhibition by [**Gillies Adamson Semple**](https://www.gilliesadamsonsemple.com/?ref=catapult-platform.art), through November 8, 2026. **Recordings** **Artist:** Gillies Adamson Semple **Exhibition:** Recordings **Venue:** [ CAPTION ](https://captionseoul.com/?ref=catapult-platform.art) **City:** Seoul, South Korea **Dates:** October 10, 2026 – November 8, 2026 **Hours:** Wednesday to Sunday, 1 pm to 7 pm **Address:** 2F, 5, Wonhyo-ro 81-gil, Yongsan-gu, Seoul, Republic of Korea **Photography:** Bokyoung Han **Image Courtesy:** Courtesy CAPTION **Gillies Adamson Semple**, born in Scotland in 1996 and based in London, presents Recordings at CAPTION in Yongsan-gu, Seoul, on view through November 8, 2026\. ![ CAPTION, Seoul review exhibition view](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/gillies-adamson-semple-recordings-caption-seoul-2026-installation-01.webp) Gillies Adamson Semple, Recordings, installation view, CAPTION, Seoul, 2026\. Photo: Bokyoung Han. Courtesy CAPTION. ![Gillies Adamson Semple, CAPTION, Seoul: view past a white platform of small works toward a grey metal door and a column](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/gillies-adamson-semple-recordings-caption-seoul-2026-installation-02.webp) CAPTION: Gillies Adamson Semple, Recordings, installation view, CAPTION, Seoul, 2026\. Photo: Bokyoung Han. Courtesy CAPTION. The worklist counts eighteen pieces, all titled Untitled (Model) and all made in 2026\. Its materials are listed plainly: smoke-fired earthenware, oak, wire, iron and copper oxide, paper, leather and silver leaf. Many of the pieces lie on a low white platform around a gallery column, while small silver-leaf works hang on the walls. For **Gillies Adamson Semple**, the studio is more than a place of production. He compares it to field recording, where materials, gestures and traces accumulate like sounds describing a particular space. Music also informs his process, which he likens to a fugue, with motifs introduced, repeated and reassembled. *Recordings* becomes a record of these transformations, capturing what happens before an object leaves the studio. Below, the gallery's exhibition text explains why the studio itself is the subject. ![Gillies Adamson Semple, CAPTION, Seoul: low white platform with scattered small works and a silver-leaf dome in front of a grey door](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/gillies-adamson-semple-recordings-caption-seoul-2026-installation-03.webp) CAPTION: Gillies Adamson Semple, Recordings, installation view, CAPTION, Seoul, 2026\. Photo: Bokyoung Han. Courtesy CAPTION. ### Exhibition Text by CAPTION CAPTION is pleased to present Recordings, a solo exhibition with London-based artist Gillies Adamson Semple (b. 1996, Scotland). Rather than presenting finished objects produced elsewhere, the exhibition takes the studio as both subject and medium, with works emerging directly from the temporal and material accumulations of the studio itself. ![ CAPTION, Seoul](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/gillies-adamson-semple-recordings-caption-seoul-2026-installation-04.webp) Gillies Adamson Semple, Recordings, installation view, CAPTION, Seoul, 2026\. Photo: Bokyoung Han. Courtesy CAPTION. Compact assemblages of smoke-fired ceramics, wood from old organ pipes, oak and pine from the studio’s infrastructure, handmade and commercial paint, and other materials left circulating in the studio for years are arranged throughout the gallery as works somewhere between sculpture and proposition, resembling spatial studies or architectural maquettes. ![Gillies Adamson Semple, CAPTION, Seoul: three elongated silver-leaf pieces hung side by side on a white wall](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/gillies-adamson-semple-recordings-caption-seoul-2026-detail-01-silver-leaf-wall-works.webp) Gillies Adamson Semple, Untitled (Model), 2026, earthenware, silver leaf, installation view, CAPTION, Seoul. Photo: Bokyoung Han. Courtesy CAPTION. ![ Gillies Adamson Semple, CAPTION, Seoul: silver-leaf dome with a round hole on the corner of the white platform](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/gillies-adamson-semple-recordings-caption-seoul-2026-detail-02-silver-leaf-dome.webp) Gillies Adamson Semple, Untitled (Model), 2026, oak, silver leaf, installation view, CAPTION, Seoul. Photo: Bokyoung Han. Courtesy CAPTION. ![Gillies Adamson Semple, CAPTION, Seoul: three small works on the white platform, a dark ceramic slab on a wooden block in front](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/gillies-adamson-semple-recordings-caption-seoul-2026-detail-03-platform-works.webp) Gillies Adamson Semple, Recordings, detail view, CAPTION, Seoul, 2026\. Photo: Bokyoung Han. Courtesy CAPTION. ![Gillies Adamson Semple, CAPTION, Seoul: stacked timber with thin wire beside a column, a ceramic piece on a red-edged board at right](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/gillies-adamson-semple-recordings-caption-seoul-2026-detail-04-stacked-wood-wire.webp) Gillies Adamson Semple, Recordings, detail view, CAPTION, Seoul, 2026\. Photo: Bokyoung Han. Courtesy CAPTION. ![Gillies Adamson Semple, CAPTION, Seoul: silver-leaf dome with a round hole resting on a dark wedge against a white ground](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/gillies-adamson-semple-recordings-caption-seoul-2026-work-01-silver-leaf-dome.webp) Gillies Adamson Semple, Untitled (Model), 2026, oak, silver leaf. Courtesy CAPTION. ![Gillies Adamson Semple, CAPTION, Seoul: stacked timber blocks on wooden slats with a charred ceramic slab and thin wire on top](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/gillies-adamson-semple-recordings-caption-seoul-2026-work-02-stacked-wood-wire.webp) Gillies Adamson Semple, Untitled (Model), 2026, smoke-fired earthenware, wood, wire. Courtesy CAPTION. ![Gillies Adamson Semple, CAPTION, Seoul: two smoke-fired ceramic fragments on a charred wooden bar](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/gillies-adamson-semple-recordings-caption-seoul-2026-work-03-smoke-fired-earthenware.webp) Gillies Adamson Semple, Untitled (Model), 2026\. Courtesy CAPTION. ![ Gillies Adamson Semple, CAPTION, Seoul: long dark smoke-fired slab resting on a brown wooden block](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/gillies-adamson-semple-recordings-caption-seoul-2026-work-04-earthenware-slab.webp) Gillies Adamson Semple, Untitled (Model), 2026\. Courtesy CAPTION. ![Gillies Adamson Semple, CAPTION, Seoul: rust-coloured open box on a speckled sheet](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/gillies-adamson-semple-recordings-caption-seoul-2026-work-05-box-on-sheet.webp) Gillies Adamson Semple, Untitled (Model), 2026\. Courtesy CAPTION. The exhibition features ceramics shaped in London and smoke-fired in the Scottish landscape, an alchemic process incorporating both natural and found materials subtly reflected on their surfaces. Other works have regained visibility by being coated with silver leaf, like voices gifted new registers. ![Gillies Adamson Semple, CAPTION, Seoul: white wall with three small silver-leaf works beside a window, platform edge at lower left](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2026/10/gillies-adamson-semple-recordings-caption-seoul-2026-installation-05-wall-works.webp) Gillies Adamson Semple, Recordings, installation view, CAPTION, Seoul, 2026\. Photo: Bokyoung Han. Courtesy CAPTION. **About the Artist** **Gillies Adamson Semple** Gillies Adamson Semple (b. 1996, Scotland) is an artist and photographer based in London. He studied at Central Saint Martins and the Royal Institute of Art Stockholm and completed an MFA at the Slade School of Fine Art. His work looks at how materials gain meaning through their social and cultural positions. 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