Aneta Regel

Originally from Poland but based in London, Aneta Regel is a graduate of the Royal College of Art, UK. Her work is held in international public collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Westerwald Museum, Germany; Handelsbankens Konstförening, Sweden; the World Ceramics Museum, Icheon, Korea; and the Carnegie Museum of Art, USA. She has exhibited at Tate Modern, London; the Łaźnia Centre for Contemporary Art, Poland; and the Saatchi Gallery, London. Regel was shortlisted for the Loewe Craft Prize in 2018 and has received several notable awards, including the Crafts Council Development Award and the Excellence Award at the World Ceramics Biennale, Icheon, Korea, in 2020. She was elected a member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors in 2014.

Regel’s ceramic sculptures express themes of metamorphosis, tension and geologic memory. Her practice is informed by what she refers to as the 'post-glacial' landscapes of her native Poland. Local folklore and mineral forms continue to underpin her research and sculptural memory. The sculptor combines stoneware, porcelain clays, volcanic rock and pigment to create a composite of embattled existence. Her experimental forms emerge through layers of the same elements compelled to different states, often repeatedly dried and then re-fired in the kiln. In this way, Regel’s materials are pushed to their limits. They emerge from a studio-practice unafraid of creative risk and non-linear method. Aneta comments this process ‘emphasises the materials’ capacity to be modified, which perhaps equates to not only our own ontology but also to the way we interact with objects and one another.’