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 in New York, The Westerwald Museum, Germany; Handelsbankens Konstförening, Sweden; World Ceramics Museum, Icheon, Korea and the Carnegie Museum of Art, USA. She has shown at the Tate Modern, Feb Laznia Center of Contemporary Arts in Poland and the Saatchi Gallery, as well as at PAD London, Masterpiece and Design Miami. The artist 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 in Icheon, Korea, 2020. She was accepted as a member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors in 2014.
Regel’s abstract ceramic works, which combine stoneware and porcelain clays with volcanic rock, express themes of metamorphosis and landscape. Multiple layers of the same elements in different states are repeatedly dried and re-fired, pushing the materials to their limits in the kiln, testing their malleability and density, strengths and weaknesses. Through her sculptural form and material, she evokes the visual power and textures of the natural world; the rhythms and energies in mountains, trees and riverbeds, and, deeper still, the powerful underground transmutations of the earth. Design Historian and Author Tanya Harrod comments, “Regel has created forests of work, tree-like trunks and bundled branches... That they carry stone insertions seems in this context more highly charged. We all have been struck by the inclusion of rocks in the roots of fallen trees, revealed to us like a secret, suggesting a closeness between two worlds, mineral and vegetal.”