Edmund De Waal

Edmund de Waal at Waddesdon
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This catalogue documents a new series of installations made in response to the interiors and collections at Waddesdon Manor.  Some of these groups of porcelain vessels relate to spectacular pieces of furniture, or echo the formal groupings of objects in 18th century interiors.  Others take on ideas of collecting itself, how things are kept together, lost, stolen or dispersed. The catalogue includes both studio and installation shots of the work in situ, as well as essays by Edmund, curator Juliet Carey and a foreword by Lord Rothschild.

This catalogue is available from Waddesdon Manor.
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From Zero
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The title, From Zero, is a reference to Kazimir Malevich's statement, 'It is from zero, in zero, that the true movement of being begins'. This exhibition was a response of sorts to Malevich; a meditation on the appearance of something from nothing. The catalogue contains an essay by A S Byatt, colour-illustrations of all the pieces from the show in 2010, along with photographs of recent commissions.

The catalogue is available from the Alan Cristea Gallery.
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Signs & Wonders
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This illustrated book provides a personal narrarative on how the ceramics galleries at the V&A have generated new ways of working with clay. It is illustrated with archival pictures and newly commissioned photography of the installation Signs & Wonders. The catalogue also includes essays by Glenn Adamson, Alun Graves and Edmund de Waal.

This catalgue is available through the V&A shop.
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Edmund de Waal at Kettle's Yard
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This book was published to conincide with Edmund's exhibitions at Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, and at mima (Middlesborough Institute of Modern Art) in 2007. It features essays by Jorunn Veiteberg, Helen Waters and a converstation on architecutre and installation between Edmund and architect David Hills of DSDHA. The book also contains photographs of Edmund's commission in Chatsworth and his studio in South London.

This book is out of print.
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A line around a shadow
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A line around a shadow is a body of work created especially for Blackwell House in Cumbria in 2005. The catalogue contains colour illustrations of all the installations, an essay by Simon Olding on Craft and Place, and an entry by Edmund on how the intervention came together.

The catalogue also features images of work by some of Edmund's studio assistants who have gone on to be successful potters in their own right.

This catalogue is out of print.
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Arcanum
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Arcanum: mapping 18th-century European porcelain was published on occasion of Edmund’s exhibition at the National Museum & Gallery, Cardiff, in 2005. It includes essays by Edmund, Sebastian Kuhn, James Putnam and a conversation between art historians Jorunn Veiteberg and Bodil Busk Laursen, along with colour illustrations.

This book is out of print.

Modern Home
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A small catalogue documenting Edmund's intervention at High Cross House in 1999. Colour plates illustrate this body of work made in response to the vocabulary of the modernist architecture and the life of this iconic building, designed in 1932 by Howe and Lescaze. The catalogue also includes essays by Michael Tooby and Edmund on his making process.

This catalogue is out of print.
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