Edmund de Waal
Works available
In the still air
2009
Sixty-six porcelain vessels in five celedon glazes
87.5 × 57.5 cm / 34 ¼ x 22 ⅜ ins
Morning, early
2008
Steel, glass and porcelain vessels
8 × 12 × 118 1/2 cm / 3 1/4 × 4 3/4 × 3ft10 3/4 ins
Something understood
2008
37 thrown porcelain vessels
Patinated steel and white lacquer channel
202 × 8 x 12 cm / 6ft7 1/2 × 3 1/8 × 4 3/4 ins
a sight of land
2010
Grey lacquer cabinet, 198 thrown porcelain
vessels in celadon and grey glazes.
168 × 93 × 8 cm / 66 1/3 × 36 1/2 × 3 1/4 ins
an ebb tide
2010
Grey lacquer cabinet, 211 thrown porcelain vessels in celadon, white and grey glazes.
168 × 93 × 8 cm / 66 1/3 × 36 1/2 × 3 1/4 ins
the leeward side
2010
Grey lacquer cabinet, 210 thrown porcelain vessels in celadon, white and grey glazes.
169 × 93 × 8 cm / 66 1/2 × 36 1/2 × 3 1/4 ins
another word for dark
2010
Black steel shelf with 49 thrown porcelain vessels; black glazes, gold leaf.
180 × 27cm / 71 × 10 1/2 ins
cadmus
2010
Grey steel box, with 9 thrown porcelain vessels; celadon glaze, gold leaf
12 × 12 × 12 cm / 4 3/4 × 4 3/4 × 4 3/4 ins
Biography
Edmund de Waal is currently Professor of Ceramics at the University of Westminster. He studied ceramics in the UK and Japan and his work has been exhibited widely both nationally and internationally. Since the late 90s, rather than producing individual objects De Waal has been working with installations of multiple pots he refers to as 'cargoes'. These pieces often respond to particular architectural spaces and are made in porcelain, which he sees as representing a common thread or matrix between the cultures of east and west. His work is represented in collections in the UK, America, Canada, Korea and Australia.