Edmund de Waal
Works available
Just Lately
2007
Porcelain vessels and two white lacquer shelves
Tristia
2007
2 White lacquer boxes, 31 yellow glazed porcelain vessels
Each box: 50 × 40 x 35 cm (7 cm gap between them)
Each box: 19 5/8 × 15 3/4 × 13 3/4 ins (2 3/4 ins between them)
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.