© The Hepworth Wakefield
Playing with Fire: Edmund de Waal and Axel Salto
22 November 2025 to 4 May 2026
EndedEdmund de Waal curates Axel Salto's first major UK show — organic stoneware that bursts with life, paired with a new de Waal installation and unseen works on paper.
From The Hepworth Wakefield
The artist and author Edmund de Waal (b.1964, Nottingham) has curated the first major exhibition of acclaimed Danish ceramicist Axel Salto (1889–1961), considered one of the greatest masters of 20th-century ceramic art. Salto was a radical polymathic figure who crossed boundaries from one discipline to another, producing an extraordinary body of ceramic work alongside paintings, woodcuts, drawings, book illustration and textiles....
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Sunday10am–5pm
MondayClosed
Tuesday10am–5pm
Wednesday10am–5pm
Thursday10am–5pm
Friday10am–5pm
Saturday10am–5pm
© The Hepworth Wakefield
Playing with Fire: Edmund de Waal and Axel Salto
22 November 2025 to 4 May 2026
EndedEdmund de Waal curates Axel Salto's first major UK show — organic stoneware that bursts with life, paired with a new de Waal installation and unseen works on paper.
From The Hepworth Wakefield
The artist and author Edmund de Waal (b.1964, Nottingham) has curated the first major exhibition of acclaimed Danish ceramicist Axel Salto (1889–1961), considered one of the greatest masters of 20th-century ceramic art. Salto was a radical polymathic figure who crossed boundaries from one discipline to another, producing an extraordinary body of ceramic work alongside paintings, woodcuts, drawings, book illustration and textiles....
Read more at The Hepworth Wakefield →Critic Reviews
No reviews yet for this exhibition.
Visit
Wakefield, West Yorkshire·View on artmap
Sunday10am–5pm
MondayClosed
Tuesday10am–5pm
Wednesday10am–5pm
Thursday10am–5pm
Friday10am–5pm
Saturday10am–5pm