Edmund de Waal

Making

tacet
New Art Centre, Wiltshire
21 September 2020 – 9 January 2021

tacet, now open at the New Art Centre, is a new exhibition of works created between March and August 2020; a period of unprecedented quiet for de Waal, spent often in solitude, making and writing in the studio.

In these last months, I realised how much I wanted to make things for people to touch. I hope they feel old, weathered, 'known and handled' to borrow David Jones' words. I've called them tacet. Silence, rest.

This new body of sculpture includes a series of benches carved from Hornton stone, the first of their kind for the artist, alongside more familiar forms and vessels made from alabaster, onyx, gold and porcelain. Titled ‘Tacet’, Latin for it is silent and a direction in music used to mark a break in the noise - most notably by John Cage in his score 4’33" - the exhibition offers visitors a real possibility for pause and reflection.

I’ve made some new works using alabaster from a quarry near Nottingham, the material used for the greatest carvings of the Middle Ages, for funerary monuments. This alabaster glows, making things float, brings light into play with the porcelain vessels and tiles that sit with them....These are slow works.

tacet
New Art Centre, Wiltshire
21 September 2020 – 9 January 2021

tacet, now open at the New Art Centre, is a new exhibition of works created between March and August 2020; a period of unprecedented quiet for de Waal, spent often in solitude, making and writing in the studio.

In these last months, I realised how much I wanted to make things for people to touch. I hope they feel old, weathered, 'known and handled' to borrow David Jones' words. I've called them tacet. Silence, rest.

This new body of sculpture includes a series of benches carved from Hornton stone, the first of their kind for the artist, alongside more familiar forms and vessels made from alabaster, onyx, gold and porcelain. Titled ‘Tacet’, Latin for it is silent and a direction in music used to mark a break in the noise - most notably by John Cage in his score 4’33" - the exhibition offers visitors a real possibility for pause and reflection.

I’ve made some new works using alabaster from a quarry near Nottingham, the material used for the greatest carvings of the Middle Ages, for funerary monuments. This alabaster glows, making things float, brings light into play with the porcelain vessels and tiles that sit with them....These are slow works.

tacet
New Art Centre, Wiltshire
21 September 2020 – 9 January 2021

tacet, now open at the New Art Centre, is a new exhibition of works created between March and August 2020; a period of unprecedented quiet for de Waal, spent often in solitude, making and writing in the studio.

In these last months, I realised how much I wanted to make things for people to touch. I hope they feel old, weathered, 'known and handled' to borrow David Jones' words. I've called them tacet. Silence, rest.

This new body of sculpture includes a series of benches carved from Hornton stone, the first of their kind for the artist, alongside more familiar forms and vessels made from alabaster, onyx, gold and porcelain. Titled ‘Tacet’, Latin for it is silent and a direction in music used to mark a break in the noise - most notably by John Cage in his score 4’33" - the exhibition offers visitors a real possibility for pause and reflection.

I’ve made some new works using alabaster from a quarry near Nottingham, the material used for the greatest carvings of the Middle Ages, for funerary monuments. This alabaster glows, making things float, brings light into play with the porcelain vessels and tiles that sit with them....These are slow works.

tacet
New Art Centre, Wiltshire
21 September 2020 – 9 January 2021

tacet, now open at the New Art Centre, is a new exhibition of works created between March and August 2020; a period of unprecedented quiet for de Waal, spent often in solitude, making and writing in the studio.

In these last months, I realised how much I wanted to make things for people to touch. I hope they feel old, weathered, 'known and handled' to borrow David Jones' words. I've called them tacet. Silence, rest.

This new body of sculpture includes a series of benches carved from Hornton stone, the first of their kind for the artist, alongside more familiar forms and vessels made from alabaster, onyx, gold and porcelain. Titled ‘Tacet’, Latin for it is silent and a direction in music used to mark a break in the noise - most notably by John Cage in his score 4’33" - the exhibition offers visitors a real possibility for pause and reflection.

I’ve made some new works using alabaster from a quarry near Nottingham, the material used for the greatest carvings of the Middle Ages, for funerary monuments. This alabaster glows, making things float, brings light into play with the porcelain vessels and tiles that sit with them....These are slow works.

tacet
New Art Centre, Wiltshire
21 September 2020 – 9 January 2021

tacet, now open at the New Art Centre, is a new exhibition of works created between March and August 2020; a period of unprecedented quiet for de Waal, spent often in solitude, making and writing in the studio.

In these last months, I realised how much I wanted to make things for people to touch. I hope they feel old, weathered, 'known and handled' to borrow David Jones' words. I've called them tacet. Silence, rest.

This new body of sculpture includes a series of benches carved from Hornton stone, the first of their kind for the artist, alongside more familiar forms and vessels made from alabaster, onyx, gold and porcelain. Titled ‘Tacet’, Latin for it is silent and a direction in music used to mark a break in the noise - most notably by John Cage in his score 4’33" - the exhibition offers visitors a real possibility for pause and reflection.

I’ve made some new works using alabaster from a quarry near Nottingham, the material used for the greatest carvings of the Middle Ages, for funerary monuments. This alabaster glows, making things float, brings light into play with the porcelain vessels and tiles that sit with them....These are slow works.

tacet
New Art Centre, Wiltshire
21 September 2020 – 9 January 2021

tacet, now open at the New Art Centre, is a new exhibition of works created between March and August 2020; a period of unprecedented quiet for de Waal, spent often in solitude, making and writing in the studio.

In these last months, I realised how much I wanted to make things for people to touch. I hope they feel old, weathered, 'known and handled' to borrow David Jones' words. I've called them tacet. Silence, rest.

This new body of sculpture includes a series of benches carved from Hornton stone, the first of their kind for the artist, alongside more familiar forms and vessels made from alabaster, onyx, gold and porcelain. Titled ‘Tacet’, Latin for it is silent and a direction in music used to mark a break in the noise - most notably by John Cage in his score 4’33" - the exhibition offers visitors a real possibility for pause and reflection.

I’ve made some new works using alabaster from a quarry near Nottingham, the material used for the greatest carvings of the Middle Ages, for funerary monuments. This alabaster glows, making things float, brings light into play with the porcelain vessels and tiles that sit with them....These are slow works.

tacet
New Art Centre, Wiltshire
21 September 2020 – 9 January 2021

tacet, now open at the New Art Centre, is a new exhibition of works created between March and August 2020; a period of unprecedented quiet for de Waal, spent often in solitude, making and writing in the studio.

In these last months, I realised how much I wanted to make things for people to touch. I hope they feel old, weathered, 'known and handled' to borrow David Jones' words. I've called them tacet. Silence, rest.

This new body of sculpture includes a series of benches carved from Hornton stone, the first of their kind for the artist, alongside more familiar forms and vessels made from alabaster, onyx, gold and porcelain. Titled ‘Tacet’, Latin for it is silent and a direction in music used to mark a break in the noise - most notably by John Cage in his score 4’33" - the exhibition offers visitors a real possibility for pause and reflection.

I’ve made some new works using alabaster from a quarry near Nottingham, the material used for the greatest carvings of the Middle Ages, for funerary monuments. This alabaster glows, making things float, brings light into play with the porcelain vessels and tiles that sit with them....These are slow works.

tacet
New Art Centre, Wiltshire
21 September 2020 – 9 January 2021

tacet, now open at the New Art Centre, is a new exhibition of works created between March and August 2020; a period of unprecedented quiet for de Waal, spent often in solitude, making and writing in the studio.

In these last months, I realised how much I wanted to make things for people to touch. I hope they feel old, weathered, 'known and handled' to borrow David Jones' words. I've called them tacet. Silence, rest.

This new body of sculpture includes a series of benches carved from Hornton stone, the first of their kind for the artist, alongside more familiar forms and vessels made from alabaster, onyx, gold and porcelain. Titled ‘Tacet’, Latin for it is silent and a direction in music used to mark a break in the noise - most notably by John Cage in his score 4’33" - the exhibition offers visitors a real possibility for pause and reflection.

I’ve made some new works using alabaster from a quarry near Nottingham, the material used for the greatest carvings of the Middle Ages, for funerary monuments. This alabaster glows, making things float, brings light into play with the porcelain vessels and tiles that sit with them....These are slow works.

tacet
New Art Centre, Wiltshire
21 September 2020 – 9 January 2021

tacet, now open at the New Art Centre, is a new exhibition of works created between March and August 2020; a period of unprecedented quiet for de Waal, spent often in solitude, making and writing in the studio.

In these last months, I realised how much I wanted to make things for people to touch. I hope they feel old, weathered, 'known and handled' to borrow David Jones' words. I've called them tacet. Silence, rest.

This new body of sculpture includes a series of benches carved from Hornton stone, the first of their kind for the artist, alongside more familiar forms and vessels made from alabaster, onyx, gold and porcelain. Titled ‘Tacet’, Latin for it is silent and a direction in music used to mark a break in the noise - most notably by John Cage in his score 4’33" - the exhibition offers visitors a real possibility for pause and reflection.

I’ve made some new works using alabaster from a quarry near Nottingham, the material used for the greatest carvings of the Middle Ages, for funerary monuments. This alabaster glows, making things float, brings light into play with the porcelain vessels and tiles that sit with them....These are slow works.

tacet
New Art Centre, Wiltshire
21 September 2020 – 9 January 2021

tacet, now open at the New Art Centre, is a new exhibition of works created between March and August 2020; a period of unprecedented quiet for de Waal, spent often in solitude, making and writing in the studio.

In these last months, I realised how much I wanted to make things for people to touch. I hope they feel old, weathered, 'known and handled' to borrow David Jones' words. I've called them tacet. Silence, rest.

This new body of sculpture includes a series of benches carved from Hornton stone, the first of their kind for the artist, alongside more familiar forms and vessels made from alabaster, onyx, gold and porcelain. Titled ‘Tacet’, Latin for it is silent and a direction in music used to mark a break in the noise - most notably by John Cage in his score 4’33" - the exhibition offers visitors a real possibility for pause and reflection.

I’ve made some new works using alabaster from a quarry near Nottingham, the material used for the greatest carvings of the Middle Ages, for funerary monuments. This alabaster glows, making things float, brings light into play with the porcelain vessels and tiles that sit with them....These are slow works.

tacet
New Art Centre, Wiltshire
21 September 2020 – 9 January 2021

tacet, now open at the New Art Centre, is a new exhibition of works created between March and August 2020; a period of unprecedented quiet for de Waal, spent often in solitude, making and writing in the studio.

In these last months, I realised how much I wanted to make things for people to touch. I hope they feel old, weathered, 'known and handled' to borrow David Jones' words. I've called them tacet. Silence, rest.

This new body of sculpture includes a series of benches carved from Hornton stone, the first of their kind for the artist, alongside more familiar forms and vessels made from alabaster, onyx, gold and porcelain. Titled ‘Tacet’, Latin for it is silent and a direction in music used to mark a break in the noise - most notably by John Cage in his score 4’33" - the exhibition offers visitors a real possibility for pause and reflection.

I’ve made some new works using alabaster from a quarry near Nottingham, the material used for the greatest carvings of the Middle Ages, for funerary monuments. This alabaster glows, making things float, brings light into play with the porcelain vessels and tiles that sit with them....These are slow works.

tacet
New Art Centre, Wiltshire
21 September 2020 – 9 January 2021

tacet, now open at the New Art Centre, is a new exhibition of works created between March and August 2020; a period of unprecedented quiet for de Waal, spent often in solitude, making and writing in the studio.

In these last months, I realised how much I wanted to make things for people to touch. I hope they feel old, weathered, 'known and handled' to borrow David Jones' words. I've called them tacet. Silence, rest.

This new body of sculpture includes a series of benches carved from Hornton stone, the first of their kind for the artist, alongside more familiar forms and vessels made from alabaster, onyx, gold and porcelain. Titled ‘Tacet’, Latin for it is silent and a direction in music used to mark a break in the noise - most notably by John Cage in his score 4’33" - the exhibition offers visitors a real possibility for pause and reflection.

I’ve made some new works using alabaster from a quarry near Nottingham, the material used for the greatest carvings of the Middle Ages, for funerary monuments. This alabaster glows, making things float, brings light into play with the porcelain vessels and tiles that sit with them....These are slow works.

tacet
New Art Centre, Wiltshire
21 September 2020 – 9 January 2021

tacet, now open at the New Art Centre, is a new exhibition of works created between March and August 2020; a period of unprecedented quiet for de Waal, spent often in solitude, making and writing in the studio.

In these last months, I realised how much I wanted to make things for people to touch. I hope they feel old, weathered, 'known and handled' to borrow David Jones' words. I've called them tacet. Silence, rest.

This new body of sculpture includes a series of benches carved from Hornton stone, the first of their kind for the artist, alongside more familiar forms and vessels made from alabaster, onyx, gold and porcelain. Titled ‘Tacet’, Latin for it is silent and a direction in music used to mark a break in the noise - most notably by John Cage in his score 4’33" - the exhibition offers visitors a real possibility for pause and reflection.

I’ve made some new works using alabaster from a quarry near Nottingham, the material used for the greatest carvings of the Middle Ages, for funerary monuments. This alabaster glows, making things float, brings light into play with the porcelain vessels and tiles that sit with them....These are slow works.

tacet
New Art Centre, Wiltshire
21 September 2020 – 9 January 2021

tacet, now open at the New Art Centre, is a new exhibition of works created between March and August 2020; a period of unprecedented quiet for de Waal, spent often in solitude, making and writing in the studio.

In these last months, I realised how much I wanted to make things for people to touch. I hope they feel old, weathered, 'known and handled' to borrow David Jones' words. I've called them tacet. Silence, rest.

This new body of sculpture includes a series of benches carved from Hornton stone, the first of their kind for the artist, alongside more familiar forms and vessels made from alabaster, onyx, gold and porcelain. Titled ‘Tacet’, Latin for it is silent and a direction in music used to mark a break in the noise - most notably by John Cage in his score 4’33" - the exhibition offers visitors a real possibility for pause and reflection.

I’ve made some new works using alabaster from a quarry near Nottingham, the material used for the greatest carvings of the Middle Ages, for funerary monuments. This alabaster glows, making things float, brings light into play with the porcelain vessels and tiles that sit with them....These are slow works.