Edmund de Waal

Edmund de Waal is an internationally acclaimed artist and writer, best known for his large-scale installations of porcelain vessels, often created in response to collections and archives or the history of a particular place. His interventions have been made for diverse spaces and museums worldwide, including Waddesdon Manor in Buckinghamshire; the Musée Nissim de Camondo in Paris; British Museum in London; Frick Collection in New York; Ateneo Veneto in Venice; Schindler House in Los Angeles; Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna; and V&A Museum in London.

De Waal is also known for his bestselling family memoir, The Hare with Amber Eyes (2010), and The White Road (2015). Letters to Camondo, a series of letters written during lockdown, was published in April 2021. He was awarded the Windham-Campbell Prize for non-fiction by Yale University in 2015. In 2021 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and awarded a CBE for his services to art. He lives and works in London.