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Hi there, I am working with Edmund de Waal and would like to request an addition to his page, as there is some missing information. As I am working with him and have a COI, I am hoping that someone in the community will be kind enough to assist.

The information to be added is that Edmund de Waal holds the following non-executive positions:

Trustee of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Source: https://www.vam.ac.uk/info/trustees Member of the Royal Mint Advisory Committee. Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/edmund-de-waal-obe-reappointed-to-the-royal-mint-advisory-committee/ Trustee of the Saturday Club. Source: https://saturday-club.org/about-us/people/

The proposed location for this addition is at the end of the Career section, where his trusteeship of Paintings in Hospitals is mentioned. We proposed amending that paragraph as follows:

"In 2017 de Waal became a Patron of Paintings in Hospitals [33], a charity that provides art for health and social care in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. De Waal is also a Trustee of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London [1] and of the Saturday Club, an educational charity for young people [3]. In 2018, de Waal was reappointed to the Royal Mint Advisory Committee for another term of 5 years." [2]

Source for details of the Saturday Club: https://saturday-club.org/

[1] https://www.vam.ac.uk/info/trustees [2] https://www.gov.uk/government/news/edmund-de-waal-obe-reappointed-to-the-royal-mint-advisory-committee [3] https://saturday-club.org/about-us/people/ [4] https://saturday-club.org/

Thank you in advance for any help you can offer.

HannaSorrell (talk) 14:01, 18 June 2019 (UTC)


 * Hi Hanna, I have made these changes along with the addition of a more comprehensive listing of exhibitions and catalogues. Let me know of any further changes that may be required. Fieldguide (talk) 11:36, 10 September 2019 (UTC)

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 * Huge thanks for your help and support on these edits, it's very much appreciated by the studio team. I have actually made a number of additional requests for edits which I wondered if you wouldn't mind helping out with? Any support you can provide would be gratefully received. HannaSorrell (talk) 15:45, 23 February 2024 (UTC)

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 * A local history (2012) by Edmund de Waal, University of Cambridge.jpg

Edmund de Waal as a ballet set designer
There is nothing in the page about Edmund's ballet set design in 2018 for the Royal Ballet. Holly har (talk) 23:12, 28 August 2020 (UTC)

This has been noted and added to this entry. Fieldguide (talk) 23:23, 22 August 2021 (UTC)

Request for a number of edits

 * What I think should be changed (include citations):

Hi there, I am working with Edmund de Waal's studio and would like to request some revisions to his page, as there is some missing information, some incorrect information, and some information that could be better represented. As I have a COI, I am hoping that someone in the community will be kind enough to assist. I'll list the requests below along with sources, there are a fair few items so thank you in advance for your patience. If it would be better to list these as individual requests, please do advise.

Introduction section: We propose amending as follows so that the text better represents de Waal's work as an artist as well as a writer: "Edmund Arthur Lowndes de Waal, CBE (born 10 September 1964) is a contemporary English artist, master potter and author. He is 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 installation Signs & Wonders (2009) is on permanent display in the cupola of the V&A Museum in London . De Waal's book The Hare with Amber Eyes was awarded the Costa Book Award for Biography, Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize in 2011 and Windham–Campbell Literature Prize for Non-Fiction in 2015. De Waal's second book The White Road, tracing his journey to discover the history of porcelain, was released in 2015. In 2021, Letters to Camondo was published in multiple translations and accompanied by an exhibition at the Musée Nissim de Camondo in Paris. "

Early Life section: In the following sentence please remove the reference to John de Waal being the husband of author Kit de Waal as they are no longer married. "De Waal's siblings include barrister John de Waal (husband of author Kit de Waal)"

Art & Ceramics section: De Waal is no longer a member of the Royal Mint Advisory Committee so suggestion to change the sentence relating to this to the following: "Between 2012 and 2022, de Waal was an appointed member of the Advisory Committee for the Royal Mint"

Please also add:

In 2021, de Waal became a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Writing section:  Suggest adding the following two sentences to the end of paragraph two.

"In 2016, The Hare with Amber Eyes was chosen as the Independent Bookshop Week’s Book of the Decade ."

"In 2021, 100,000 free copies of the book were distributed across Vienna as part of the city’s Eine STADT. Ein BUCH initiative. "

Suggest amending paragraph three as follows to share information about the donation of the Ephrussi family archive to the Jewish Museum in Vienna as well as the subsequent exhibition which took place at the Jewish Museum in New York.

"In November 2019, the Jewish Museum Vienna opened The Ephrussis. Travel in Time , an exhibition centered around the Ephrussi Family Archive which was donated to the museum by the de Waal family in January 2018. The archive includes hundreds of photographs, notebooks, manuscripts, diaries and letters documenting the family’s history from Odessa to Paris and Vienna; then to their migration as refugees as the Second World War forced them to seek asylum in the United Kingdom, the US and Mexico, and onto Japan and other countries. A subsequent exhibition took place at the Jewish Museum in New York between November 2021 – May 2022. Titled The Hare with Amber Eyes after de Waal’s memoir, the exhibition was designed by architects Diller, Scofidio + Renfro and brought together pieces from the Ephrussi’s collections from across the world, including the group of Japanese netsuke through which the family’s story is told. "

Request to add additional information to the final paragraph about the book Letters to Camondo as follows:

"In April 2021, the first edition of de Waal’s book, Lettres à Camondo, was published by Musée des Arts Décoratifs (MAD) in Paris. The UK edition was published by Chatto & Windus later that same month, followed by several other translations. The book is a series of letters written to the historical figure, Count Moïse de Camondo (1860-1935), the owner of a Parisian palace on the rue de Monceau and neighbour to the author’s forebears, the Ephrussi. When the Count died in 1935, the house and its collections were bequeathed to France as the Musée Nissim de Camondo, in honour of his son who was killed in World War I . Six months after the publication of Lettres à Camondo, an exhibition of the same title was staged by the museum. Unaltered since opening its doors to the public in 1936, this was the first temporary exhibition of a living artist to be held there ."

Major Exhibitions and Installations section: Please could the following exhibitions be added to the list:

1995, Edmund de Waal. Egg, London.

1998, Edmund de Waal. Egg, London.

2019-2020, ''The Ephrussis. Travel in Time.'' Jewish Museum, Vienna.

2022, Edmund de Waal and Unseen Pieces from The Feuerle Collection. The Feuerle Collection, Berlin.

2022, we live here, forever taking leave. Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire.

2022, their bright traces. Gana Art Center, Seoul

2023, ''to light, and then return-: Edmund de Waal and Sally Mann. Gagosian, New York.

2023, Playing with Fire: Edmund de Waal and Axel Salto. CLAY Museum, Denmark.

Request change of capitalisation to the following entries in the list of exhibitions:

2019 Elective Affinities. The Frick Collection, New York.

2019 Library of Exile. Japanisches Palais, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden.

2020 Library of Exile. The British Museum, London.

These exhibition titles should all be lower case: elective affinities and library of exile.

Bibliography: There are two books to be added here:

Perdendosi. Cambridge, Hazel Press. 2022.

Poor Crisp. London, Cuckoo Press. 2021.

There are several exhibition catalogues to be added here:

lettres à Camondo. Paris, France. Musée des Arts Decoratifs. 2021.

their bright traces. Seoul, Korea. Jung Lee. 2022.

library of exile. London, UK. British Museum. 2020.

Playing with Fire: Edmund de Waal and Axel Salto. Oslo, Norway. Forgalet Press. 2023.

to light, and then return—. New York, USA. Gagosian. 2023.

Updating with new information, amending incorrect information.
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 * References supporting the possible change (format using the "cite" button):

HannaSorrell (talk) 15:43, 23 February 2024 (UTC)


 * ❌ The above edits are not supported by enough reliable and independent sources, which also means the majority of the sources cannot be primary. Please see Wikipedia's policies on reliable sources at WP:RS and WP:BLP. P,TO 19104 (talk) (contribs) 15:30, 23 June 2024 (UTC)