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 elected a member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors in 2014. Her first solo exhibition in the US, Second Nature, took place at Jason Jacques Gallery in 2017. In 2018, Regel was shortlisted for the Loewe Craft Prize. She has received several awards, including the Crafts Council Development Award and the Excellence Award at the World Ceramics Biennale, Icheon, Korea, in 2020. Regel’s first UK solo exhibition, Memory Landscape, exhibited at Sarah Myerscough Gallery, 2023. Regel has featured in acclaimed groups shows at Huxley Parlour Gallery, 2026, Metamorphosis: On Clay and Persistence of Form at Carpenter’s Workshop, 2026. 

Aneta Regel belongs to a generation holding memories of post-communist Poland. Such histories of transition and contrast have gone on to influence Regel’s life and work. Regel also wrestles with another, more ancient, transition. The ‘post-glacial landscape’ of Poland. Her sculptures such as Gneiss, Knotweed, Galaz, Rock, evoke this topography and Regel’s immersion within it. Emerging from a studio-practice unafraid of risk and non-linear method, her ceramic materials sustain intensive excess. She combines colourful glazes, stoneware, porcelain, volcanic rock, and pigment to create her forms. Regel compels and pushes these elements to their limits, as they undergo cycles of mixing, drying and firing. This is the work of metamorphosis and memory. In the artist’s words, her sculptures are ‘the result of a meeting of the past with present reality’, of landscapes both natural and psychological.