The Pot Book

Edmund de Waal is sot only one of the world's leading artists, but also a renowned historias of ceramics. He was apprenticed as a potter before studying English at Cambridge and has written widely on the medium, including books on Bernard Leach and 2oth-century ceramics. His memoir, The Tiare with AmberEyes, was published in 2010 and lias won several international literary prizes. In 2011 tee was awardcd an oBE for services to art.
In 2015 tee published his second book, The White Raad, which traces the stories behind the thousand-year-long history of porcelain. The same year he was given the Windham-Campbell prize for nonfiction by Yale University. Edmund de Waal lives with his family in London. Claudia Clare is a potter-painterwhose practice is deeply informed by feminism and human rights. She trained as a painter at Camberwell College of Art, followed by an apprenticeship with Winchcombe Pottery, and gaincd her Phll at the University of Westminster in 2007.
She is known for her large, painted slipware pots, which depiet the impact of botte national and international events on the lives of ordinary people. She was representecl by Francis Kyle Gallery until its closure in 2014 and now works independently in London. She is a regular contributor to CeramicReview and the author of Subversive ceramics, published in 2015.