Dramatic Installation for the V&A's New Galleries Commissioned with Art Fund Help

　　Signs & Wonders is a red lacquer shelf (14 meters in diameter) that runs the circumference of the ceiling dome and will sit 40 meters above the V&A's Brompton Road entrance.

　　LONDON.- Independent charity The Art Fund today announces that it has given £80,000 towards a bold, new installation by critically acclaimed potter Edmund de Waal for the central dome of the V&A's new Ceramics Galleries. It will be unveiled when the galleries open on 18 September.

　　Signs & Wonders is a red lacquer shelf (14 meters in diameter) that runs the circumference of the ceiling dome and will sit 40 meters above the V&A’s Brompton Road entrance. 450 monochrome ceramics thrown by de Waal will be arranged on the shelf in rhythmical groupings. Each group is inspired by one of the museum’s major ceramics collections, from 18th century French porcelain to Hispano-Moorish luster and English slipware.

　　On entering the museum, people will be able to look up and glimpse the arcs of Signs & Wonders; the installation in its entirety can be viewed in the contemporary ceramics room in the new sixth floor galleries.

【编辑：张瑜】