Edmund De Waal
Edmund de Waal is an internationally acclaimed artist and writer, best known for his large-scale installations of porcelain vessels, often created in response to collections and archives or the history of a particular place. His interventions have been made for diverse spaces and museums worldwide, including The British Museum, London, The Frick Collection, New York and the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. His memoir, The Hare with Amber Eyes, won the RSL Ondaatje prize and the Costa Biography Award, was named as one of the books of the decade by the Sunday Times and of the 21st century by the Guardian. It was the Independent Bookseller Book of the Decade and has been translated into 29 languages. In 2015 he was awarded the Windham-Campbell prize for non-fiction by Yale University. The White Road, a journey into the history of porcelain, was published to great acclaim in 2015. His new book is Letters to Camondo.
Videos
Edmund de Waal @ 5x15 - The Hare With Amber Eyes
Edmund de Waal explains his collection of 264 netsuke. Describing how these tiny 17th century ivory objects are both loseable and forgettable, he goes on to tell of their biographical significance. De Waal initially traces the netsuke's story to his own childhood, to when he
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