This year’s British Art Lecture is given by Edmund de Waal, OBE. De Waal is a prolific artist and writer. He is the author of The Hare with Amber Eyes (2010), which has been published in over thirty languages and won the Costa Biography Award and the RSL Ondaatje Prize. De Waal was recently awarded the prestigious Windham-Campbell prize for non-fiction, given annually by Yale University.
In this lecture Edmund de Waal reflects on what it means to be an artist who writes, examining the passionate interweaving of words and art, the visual impact of the shape of poetry and the idea of transcription and quotation in the work of Cy Twombly, Anselm Kiefer and Agnes Martin, as well as in his own practice.