Rina Bernabei

Rina has been working in industrial design for the past 30 years. She has brought her love of earthy, clean aesthetics to clay. Her ceramic practice, incorporates 3D printed ceramics, hand thrown, and hand built pieces. In 2020 she worked at Kyushu University to establish their 3D ceramic lab and run workshops. Her pieces encapsulates her years of practice as a product designer as well as the relationships between handmade craft practices and digital technologies and manufacture.

Rina has also worked as Senior Lecturer in Industrial Design at the University of New South Wales for 26 years, as well as in design studios in Sydney and Milan. She is co-director of bernabeifreeman, whose award-winning design work has been featured in many exhibitions both locally and internationally, most notably at the Milan Furniture Fair and the Milan Triennale. Her work has been published extensively and she has many written publications.

Untitled Group Exhibition March 2023.