Nadia Stieglitz

Nadia Stieglitz is a French-born ceramicist based in Charleston, South Carolina, USA, specialising in organic abstract sculpture. With formal training in painting, photography, and graphic design, ceramic work was her first self- taught venture. This journey into the three-dimensional world of clay has allowed her to explore her sensibility for natural textures and anthropomorphic shapes, at the intersection of art, nature, and the human form. She creates a world for viewers to enter, explore, and engage with shapes that capture the soothing nature of the feminine.

Of her work, she shares, “My sculptural work emphasises the many qualities that, once combined, total the makeup of a living being in all its aesthetic, social, and cultural manifestations. Through my exploration of organic abstraction, I question the forms we associate with womanhood and, subsequently, femininity, both honouring and re-imagining a construct that often pressurises our understanding of what ‘should’ and ‘should not’ be. I quietly try to underpin an essential quality of three-dimensionality: that of allowing an object to be viewed from multiple angles. This property, critical to the element of discovery through the revelation of the unknown, reinforces the thematic power of sculpture to relay human observation and understanding.”

This year, she will be a 2022 Visiting Artist at the Gibbes Museum of Art, a program that features
eight artists annually whose work contributes to a new understanding of art in the American South, as well as a Summer Resident at the Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts in Newcastle, Maine.

See more from Nadia at nadiastieglitz.com