Edmund de Waal
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Biography
Edmund de Waal is one of the world's leading ceramic artists. His work has been widely exhibited and he has most recently created major installations for the V&A and Tate Britain. He was apprenticed as a potter before studying English at Cambridge. He has written widely on art and ceramics, including books on Bernard Leach and 20th-century ceramics. His memoir, The Hare with Amber Eyes, was published by Chatto and Windus in 2010 and has won the Costa Biography Award, New Writer of the Year at the Galaxy Book Award, the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and the Independent Booksellers Book Prize. In 2011 he was awarded an OBE for services to art. He lives with his family in London.
Edmund is currently working towards an exhibition at Waddesdon Manor, opening Friday 20th April 2012 (more info at www.edmunddewaal.com).
He was appointed a Trustee of the V&A on 1st Dec 2011.
Recent solo exhibitions have included Water-shed, Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum (2010); Signs & Wonders, Victoria & AlbertMuseum, London (2009) Kettle's Yard at Tate, Tate Britain (2009). and group exhibitions The Artists' House, New Art Centre, Roche Court (2010);