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)
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Kandlhofer | POP-UP
8 Jul - 2 Sep 2023Galerie Kandlhofer is pleased to open a pop-up exhibition with 20 artists from nine different nations in Velden am Wörthersee (Seecorso 42) on 8 July for the coming summer months up to September 2nd 2023. The Kandlhofer Gallery's Summer Pop-Up deliberately focuses on a previously unseen compilation of sculptures by...Read more -
Irena Posner | Best in Show
11 May - 29 Jul 2023The works by British artist Irena Posner (b. 1988) enter the realm of allegory, playfulness and humour to explore power structures through animal discourses, selective breeding and fetish. Posner’s marble sculptures presented in the new exhibition Best in Show take domestication and the implicit compromise of freedoms for comfort as...Read more
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Irena PosnerDolce, 2023Hand Carved, Carrara marble85 x 60 x 36 cm
33 1/2 x 23 5/8 x 14 1/8 in -
Irena PosnerDouble Dogs, 2023Plaster
Edition 3 plus 2 AP85 x 60 x 36 cm
33 1/2 x 23 5/8 x 14 1/8 in -
Irena PosnerInstallation View: Best in Show, 2023
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Irena PosnerMind doesn’t matter when matter doesn’t mind, much, 2023Hand Carved, Portuguese pink marble63 x 44.5 x 28 cm
24 3/4 x 17 1/2 x 11 in -
Irena PosnerNo tongue can tell, no tail can wag, 2023Hand Carved, Statuario marble and steel92 x 44 x 36 cm
36 1/4 x 17 3/8 x 14 1/8 in -
Irena PosnerEva perched on a wood beam, 2022Hand Carved, Statuario marble70 x 48 x 53 cm
27 1/2 x 18 7/8 x 20 7/8 in -
Irena PosnerThe Landlady, 2022Hand Carved, marble60 x 50 x 35 cm
23 5/8 x 19 3/4 x 13 3/4 in