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Article: From A to B and back again: Edmund de Waal.
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- Ceramics Art & Perception
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- December 1, 2007
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THE FIRST PUBLIC EVENT ACCOMPANYING EDMUND DE Waal's 2007 exhibition at Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, was a dialogue. It was between Edmund de Waal and Dame Gillian Beer. A discussion between the artist and the distinguished Cambridge-based writer and academic, it introduced a number of themes embedded in de Waal's latest project. Most powerfully and, in many ways, most insistent on this occasion, it considered the relationships between de Waal's current work and his personal history.
De Waal is returning to a beginning, a touchstone: Cambridge, and particularly, Kettle's Yard itself. The dialogue between potter and poet is soon ...