Today his porcelain is in thirty international museum collections. He is known for his largescale installations of porcelain vessels often created in response to collections and archives or the history of a particular place. The white road is a unique book by a unique person. The best books on inspiration for writing and art five.
His books include the family memoir the hare with amber eyes. Through white, there is a language there that can be explored without having to go to other kinds of ceramic language. The author of the hare with amber eyes, who is also a ceramic artist, tells us about books that have influenced both his careers, from the life of a celebrated potter to a collection of japanese haiku. No intended as comprehensive encyclopedia, it is instead a selection representative of the beautiful, the intriguing and the inspiring that which most demonstrates the skill and the imagination of the potter. Her work is in the public collections at the massachusetts institute of technology boston, ma, the. His bestselling memoir, the hare with amber eyes, was shortlisted for numerous prizes and won the costa biography award and the rsl ondaatje prize. Polyglot, steeped in art and literature and history, able to throw a pot and turn a sentence with equal skill, endlessly curious and stupendously diligent, aesthetic to his fingertips but also deeply moralmr. Another to add to this collection of all collections. These captions are highly stimulating and make the book far more than just a picture book of carefully selected clay pots from diverse traditions in time and space. This research formed the basis of his book, famine that kills.
Contributors include novelists colm toibin, peter carey and as byatt. The pot book is the first publication to document the extraordinary range and variety of ceramic vessels of all periods, from a delicate bowl made by an unnamed artisan in china in the third millennium bc, or a jug made in eighteenthcentury. Accessible informative guide to over 300 makers, schools and styles of ceramics. A familys century of art and loss, and the white road. Edmund has made installations for chatsworth, kettles yard, tate britain and the victoria and albert museum and is the author of the pot book and the. The reading agency adults galaxy national book awards. Studio pottery and contemporary ceramics, 20th century ceramics, design sourcebook. He is working on exhibitions for museums in the uk and america and on commissions for private clients. If one or more works are by a distinct, homonymous authors, go ahead and split the author. His work is characterised by the repetition of the simplest, cylindrical, porcelain forms, each distorted by the hand and in their firing.
Find an indepth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. In 2011 he was awarded the order of the british empire for service to the arts. His 2010 book, the hare with amber eyes, was a surprise best seller. But if theres one subject the artist and can write about. The pot book is the first publication to document the extraordinary range and variety of ceramic vessels of all periods, in a comprehensive and accessible a to z format. Miller, colm toibin, peter carey, as byatt, alexandra munroe, and. Now hes written a history of his first love, ceramics. The pot book is a beautifully illustrated az guide to over 300 makers and styles of ceramics from all over the world. Clay is one of the very first materials invented by man. Phaidon press, 2011 simply stunning in layout and content. Phil in social anthropology at nuffield college, oxford for his thesis on the 19845 darfur famine in sudan. An az history of ceramic art by one of the worlds leading ceramic artists. The history of ceramic art is ingrained in the history of mankind.
The pot book is the first publication to document the extraordinary range and variety of ceramic vessels of all periods, from a delicate bowl made by an unnamed artisan in china in the third millennium bc, or a jug made in eighteenthcentury dresden, to a plate made by picasso in 1952, a spade form made by hans coper or the vases of. See available design, sculpture, and installation for sale and learn about the artist. His coverage 300 unique vessels in the pot book, was published by phaidon in 2011. His bestselling memoir, the hare with amber eyes, won the rsl ondaatje prize and the costa biography award. Agent details, along with key contact information, can be found on the handbook, an online resource for. Journey into an obsession, the pot book, rethinking bernard leach.
The porcelain containers encased in a variety of horizontal and vertical vitrines, such as in the series just lately 20072008, vary subtly in. Her work has received press from art in america, art forum, art news, bomb magazine, the new york times, the new yorker. He handed me, for instance, a 1,000yearold chinese porcelain plate the kind of object you would expect. Laura barnett talks to him about life behind the wheel.