Regina Heinz
BORN:
Born in Austria,
EDUCATION:
Heinz studied Fine Art and Ceramics in Vienna, then at Ecole Superieure d’Art, Geneva and Wimbledon School of Art and Goldsmith’s College, London.
SUBJECTS OF WORK:
Her work displays an organic and sensual quality, but is essentially abstract, dealing with form, volume, line and colour, . Soft slabs of clay are bent, manipulated and joined with mathematical sensibility to create precise but playful forms that are informed and inspired both by the mountainous landscapes of her native Austria and the urban geometry of the big city. “It is this tension between the hard and soft, the architectural and the organic, the abstract and the natural, which animates my work”, Heinz comments. Geometric designs are incised and brushed on in vibrant ceramic colours to emphasise the underlying forms and to add depth and intensity to the coloured surface.
EXHIBITIONS:
1999 – Prize Town of Venissieux, Ceramics Biennale Manises, Spain
2002 – Adrian Sassoon Arts of the Kiln Award, Chelsea Crafts Fair, London
2006 – Queensbury-Hunt Prize, Ceramic Art London 2006
Selected Commissions/collections:
2004 – Site specific mural, private commission, Austria
2005 – Ceramic Wall Panel, private commission, London
2006 – Various private commissions for sculptures and wall panels, England and Austria
Selected Exhibitions:
1999 – Angel Row Gallery, Foyer, Nottingham, England
1999 – European Ceramics Biennale, Manises, Spain
2000 – Eton Applied Arts, Windsor, Eton, England
2001 – Midlands Art Centre, Birmingham, England
2002 – International Biennale of Ceramic art, Vallauris, France
2003 – Dorman Museum, Middlesbrough, England
2004 – Biennale of Ceramic Sculpture, Mamer, Luxembourg
2004 – 1st Taiwan Ceramic Biennale, Taipei, Taiwan
2005 – Ruthin Crafts Centre, Ruthin, England
2005 – Westerwald Preis, Ceramics Biennale, Hoehr-Grenzhausen, Germany
2006 – The City Gallery, Leicester, England
2007 – The pot, the Vessel, the Object, Aberystwyth Art Centre, England
Reglina Heinz sculpture for sale from The Sculpture Park is detailed below:
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AbstractCushions Wall Plaque by Regina Heinz
£2,880 inc VATRegina Heinz, Cushions Wall Plaque, Stoneware