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Edmund de Waal is a potter who writes. He also curates and advises museums on installations. He is a professor of ceramics at University of Westminster.

His work with porcelain has been exhibited widely and is in many international museum collections.

‘In the past few years, Edmund de Waal has begun to exert an extraordinary influence on the world of studio ceramics, both through his own pots and as a writer and lecturer. In a quiet but resolute way, he has begun to reshape our sense of the history of modern ceramics and the possibilities of the form.

The Times 2003