Romina Berenice Canet is a fine artist, published writer and award winning doll and bear maker.
Born in Argentina, living and working in Bristol UK since 2010.

Her work reflects an interest in literature, vintage toys, latin american art, pop surrealism, sensuality, irony and the circus.

With her dolls she explores childhood, a land full of magic and surprise, but also uncertainty and fear. Just like in dreams she hopes her dolls can remind people of something about themselves but in an inexplicable way.

She uses her own photographic practice and poetry as inspiration, as well as research into theoretical areas such as carnival, the unconscious, the uncanny and the abject.





Romina Berenice Canet graduated in Fine Arts from the "Antonio Berni" School of Visual Arts in Buenos Aires, specializing in painting and printmaking. She also studied theater, music, mural technique and trapeze. She worked on the restoration of antiques at the Palacio de Santa Cruz in Madrid in 2008 and has been working creating dolls and bears in Bristol for over 14 years. Her dolls and bears won international awards and were exhibited in Argentina, Japan, Canada, England, Belgium, Czech Republic, Italy, Germany and the United States, among other countries. She was part of the board of directors of APOA (Association of Argentine Poets) and coordinated the poetry reading event "Otros Animales" at La Casa de la Poesía in Buenos Aires. In 2010 she curated an anthology for the National Funding for the Arts on the poetry of surrealist poet María Meleck Vivanco. As a poet she published "Resabio de las fiestas" (Ediciones La guillotina, Buenos Aires, 2004) which includes twelve of her lithographs, and "La Maleza" (Bartleby Editores, Madrid 2023) which won the XLII Iberoamerican Poetry award Juan Ramón Jimenez. She has an unpublished collection of poems and a novel in progress.

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