Irena Posner

Irena holds a Masters in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art. She was awarded the Harlow Sculpture Town Artist in Residence for 2023 and was the recipient of the Gilbert Bayes Sculpture Award in 2021. She was shortlisted for the Kenneth Armitage Award in 2022 and has undertaken residencies in Carrara, Italy and Weymouth, England, and most recently completed a 6-month carving residency at the University of East London. Her works are held in Odunpazari Modern Museum, Turkey and Fondazione Benetton, Italy. Irena works between Carrara and London. 

Select solo and exhibitions include: D Contemporary, (2023), Groundwork, Studio West (2022), Ashburner Sculpture Prize (2022), Stone Lane Gardens (2022), Making Marks, Battersea Park (2022), Degree Show, Royal College of Art (2022), Equal quantities of everything, The Baths Hackney Wick, London, (2022), Fle-sh, Old Operating Theatre, London (2020), WIP, Royal College of Art, London (2020), Movement, Tate Ex-change, Tate Modern, London (2019), Unfinished, Peckham Levels, London (2018), Light Ignites our Inspi-ration, Asylum, London (2018), Snorkel, Cookhouse Gallery Chelsea, London (2018), Fragments, The Ga-rage, London (2017), Still Lives, Erarta Gallery (2016), London Griffin Gallery Open, Griffin Gallery (2015)