Edmund de Waal: A Thousand Hours

The ceramicist's star has been in the ascendent since his unlikely bestseller 'The Hare with Amber Eyes'. Here he presents what's set to be his largest installation to date, a set of 11 new works shown across Alan Cristea's gallery spaces at 31 and 34 Cork Street. The show, which explores the idea of 'holding' a large amount of time in one space, comprises a pair of identical vitrines that together contain 1,000 pots – de Waal describes the work as being 'anti-monumental... since the viewer can move through and around the work.' Among other pieces on display is 'in praise of shadows', a stack of aluminium shelves interspersed with porcelain dishes, that makes reference to the work of the American minimalist Donald Judd.