Representative work by Edmund de Waal
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Edmund de Waal

b. 1964, Nottingham, England · British · Based in London, United Kingdom

  • MA in English, Trinity College, Cambridge (1986); apprentice potter in Canterbury and Mejiro, Tokyo
  • Porcelain Installations
  • Vitrines
  • Gilded Wood
  • Literature & Architecture

Across Ceramics; installation; writing, Edmund de Waal has developed a practice centered on porcelain vessels arranged as spatial and historical propositions about memory, collecting, architecture and displacement. The work is best understood in relation to Contemporary ceramics; installation art, where material choices and visual structure carry as much weight as subject matter.

Contemporary ceramics; installation art

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