Horned 2

2024
Stoneware clay, Rocks, Glaze
28 x 25 x 26 cm | 11 x 9.8 x 10.2 in.

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, USA; The Westerwald Museum, Germany; Handelsbankens Konstförening, Sweden; World Ceramics Museum, Icheon, Korea; and the Carnegie Museum of Art, USA. She has exhibited at the Tate Modern, UK; Feb Laznia Center of Contemporary Arts, Poland; The Saatchi Gallery, UK; PAD London, TEFAF Maastricht, and Design Miami. Aneta 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 in 2020. She became a member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors in 2014.

Aneta’s abstract ceramic sculptures explore metamorphosis, conflict, and change. By combining stoneware and porcelain clays with volcanic rock, she creates works that reflect the embattled nature of existence, pushing her chosen materials to their limits. Through repeated drying and firing, her sculptures test the malleability, density, and resilience of her elements. Aneta describes this process as a reflection of both human ontology and our interactions with objects and one another. Her work is deeply influenced by her personal history, particularly her experiences in Post-communist Poland. This period of transition informs her art, which often expresses themes of memory, displacement, and nostalgia. Her connection to the landscape is evident, as she draws inspiration from natural textures and forms, evoking the rhythms of mountains, trees, and riverbeds as well as the underground transformations of the earth.