Eva Hild

"My sculptures are bodies, subjected to pressure and movement" - Eva Hild

Eva Hild works with sculptures, primarily in white or black stoneware clay, but also larger public sculptures in metal. Her creative process revolves around the relationship between inner and outer realities; the duality between inside and outside, content and form. The sculptures are a reflection of her inner landscape of forms, bodies where presence and absence meet. The ceramic figures are hand-built with thin coils of clay that she slowly spirals up into volumes, and then smooths them with sandpaper. The process is lengthy, with just the construction of the structure taking five to six months.

Hild lives and works in Sparsör in the municipality of Borås, in a house that was once a shop and post office where she moved with her family and children 20 years ago when she finished her studies. Her first solo exhibition was held at Galleri Inger Molin in Stockholm in 2000, and her sculptures have since been shown at galleries such as Nancy Margolis Gallery in New York and Galerie NeC in Paris. She is also represented in museums and art collections nationally and internationally, including Musee de Sèvres in Paris, Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Museum of Contemporary Ceramics in Shanghai, and Nationalmuseum in Stockholm.

The auction's white "Loop" from 2012, with its organic, non-figurative form, is typical of the artist.