School of Art

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School of Art
Aberystwyth University
Buarth Mawr
Aberystwyth
Ceredigion
SY23 1NG

Tel: +44 (0)1970 622460

Fax: +44 (0)1970 622461

Email: artschool@aber.ac.uk

Display artist/maker:

Heinz Regina

Born: 1957, Austria

Ceramicist. Heinz was born in Austria, where she studied an MA in Painting, Art Education and German Literature at the Academy of Fine Art at the University of Vienna (1975-81). Following this she acquired a diploma in Ceramics from the Ecole Supérieure d'Arts Appliqués in Geneva (1988-89). After becoming a UK resident in 1989, Heinze then studied Ceramics at Goldsmith’s College (1989-91) before completing an MA in Site-Specific Sculpture at Wimbledon School of Art (1993-95).

Heinz has worked in South London since 1998 and is best known for the ‘pillow’ forms she creates as individual abstract sculptures or as part of a wall panel series. Her work is inspired by the mountainous landscape of her home country. She has developed a technique of constructing free-standing sculptures and relief pieces for wall hangings from soft slabs of clay. “It is this tension between hard and soft, the architectural and the organic, the abstract and the natural, which animates my work,” remarks Heinz.

Heinz’s work is held in many ceramics collections nationally and internationally. She is a Crafts Council Selected Member, an elected Fellow of the Craft Potters Association of Great Britain, and a member of the International Academy of Ceramics. In 2008 she created work for the British Pavilion at the International Ceramic Art Museum in Fuping, Shaanxi, China. In 2009 she was a demonstrator at the International Ceramics Festival in Aberystwyth.

Objects in the collections associated with this artist/maker

Variation on the Alphabet C1619 Ceramics



 
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