Shigeo Otake (b. 1955, Kobe, Japan) is a painter of otherworldly creatures and ‘fungal grotesqueries’, whose recent work has been informed, in part, by his personal studies of parasitic life and the morphology of Cordyceps. The artist’s fascination with the social organisation of non-human life has inspired a distinctive approach to figuration – the scenes he conjures feature all manner of seen and unseen creatures, from the terrestrial to the supernatural.
