	Regina Heinz (Austria) Dates: b.1957 Regina Heinz was born in Austria where she studied Fine Art in Vienna, and ceramics at the Ecole Supérieure d'Arts Appliqués, Geneva, before moving to the UK permanently in 1989. She studied ceramics at Goldsmiths University before completing an MA in Site-Specific Sculpture at Wimbledon School of Art, London (1993 – 1995). She 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, Austria. 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”, Heinz comments. Her work is held in many ceramic 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, China. In 2009 she was a demonstrator at the International Ceramics Festival in Aberystwyth.

Regina Heinz (Austria)

Dates: b.1957

Regina Heinz was born in Austria where she studied Fine Art in Vienna, and ceramics at the Ecole Supérieure d'Arts Appliqués, Geneva, before moving to the UK permanently in 1989. She studied ceramics at Goldsmiths University before completing an MA in Site-Specific Sculpture at Wimbledon School of Art, London (1993 – 1995). She 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, Austria. 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”, Heinz comments. Her work is held in many ceramic 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, China. In 2009 she was a demonstrator at the International Ceramics Festival in Aberystwyth.