Nina Gerada

Nina Gerada is a sculptor who lives and works in London and Malta. She was given a rigorous and traditional training in art from an early age. Gerada moved to London in 2002 where she studied Art, Design and Architecture. Her career has spanned different fields, and she has worked at a multitude of scales, including production design, urban design, architecture and map making, before focussing on sculpture.
Nina Gerada has recently exhibited as part of the Malta Art Biennale 2024. She was selected to exhibit at Fresh, at the British Ceramics Biennial 2023, one of the flagship exhibitions celebrating “rising stars of ceramic” and at Collect in Somerset House in London in 2022 and 2023. Gerada has also exhibited at AMP Gallery, Edinburgh 2024, The Middle Room, LA 2024, London Craft Week, 2021, and The Daphne Festival, London 2022.
“I had my existence. I was there. / Me in place and the place in me. / Where can it be found again, / An elsewhere world, beyond / Maps and atlases … ” (Seamus Heaney, Human Chain. Faber and Faber, 2010, p. 35)
If one spends enough time with a pebble in their pocket, their fingers will come to know it. This is also true of landscapes; they reside within our bodies, and our bodies reside within them. Nina Gerada found rocks and enlarged them in clay, building large masses and carving, painting, and weathering—recreating geological time. The pieces hold the negative space of the hands that made them, asking to be touched. This is the beginning of a new body of work exploring the relationship between rocks and bodies. Incomplete and ambiguous, strong but smoothened and cracked, this work, rather than providing answers, asks questions. It is an exploration into embodied knowledge and our interconnectedness to the earth.