Forthcoming exhibitions

Edmund de Waal at Waddesdon Manor, opening Friday 20th April, 2012

Waddesdon is a fabulous faux-French chateau in the middle of Buckinghamshire, full of Sevres and gilt furniture and extraordinary art. It is a wonderfuly nuanced bit of Rothschild assimilation into Victorian English society, a sort of dressing-up game on the grandest scale possible

...And so I'm making a series of vitrines of porcelain to put alongside all these other vitrines. It is my take on family and display, of course, but I do intend it to be really beautiful. And for it be a way of thinking through in visual terms some of the ideas that drift through the my book (The Hare the Amber Eyes), on belonging.

 

Signs & Wonders at the V&A

To celebrate the opening of the new ceramics galleries at the V&A I was commissioned to make a new installation.

Signs & Wonders is in gallery 141 of the V&A. To watch a short film by the V&A of me talking about the work please click here.

A fully illustrated book designed by Spin with photographs by Hélène Binet and essays by Alun Graves, Glenn Adamson and Edmund de Waal. Available from V&A Publications £10

For more information on the V&A and to find out about opening times please go to the V&A website: www.vam.ac.uk

For details and images of Signs & Wonders please clickhere