Edmund de Waal's Story

Clay hand jar hand break hand

Edmund de Waal, 2023

Handwritten, embellished with gold leaf, and signed by the author. 
Gold leaf, porcelain slip and black ink on 150gsm, A5 handmade paper, ethically sourced. 
1/2" flat oak frame in antique black, with conservation mount and non-reflective art glass. Framed by Green and Stone of Chelsea.   

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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. De Waal is also renowned for his bestselling family memoir, The Hare with Amber Eyes (2010), and The White Road (2015). His most recent book, Letters to Camondo, a series of haunting letters written during lockdown was published in April 2021. He was awarded the Windham-Campbell Prize for non-fiction by Yale University in 2015. In 2021 he was awarded a CBE for his services to art. He lives and works in London. 

Author photo by Tom Jamieson.