Catalogue Essay

A Secret History of Clay: From Gauguin to Gormley

Tate Liverpool, 2004

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Edmund de Waal's essay, Terra Incognita, accompanied Tate Liverpool's 2004 exhibition A Secret History of Clay: From Gauguin to Gormley. The essay has since appeared in reworked form in the catalogue for the exhibition Kneaded Knowledge: The Language of Ceramics at the Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz, in 2016 and the National Gallery of Prague in 2017.

Catalogue Essay

Black Mountain College and the crafts

Arnolfini / Kettle's Yard, 2006

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Edmund de Waal's catalogue essay for the 2006 Arnolfini / Kettle's Yard exhibition, Starting at Zero: Black Mountain College 1933-57, on the importance of the Black Mountain College.