CAMBRIDGE.- This summer Kettle's Yard is presenting an exhibition of the work of the leading British potter of his generation, Edmund de Waal. For de Waal, who read English at Trinity Hall, and for whom Kettle's Yard was a source of inspiration during student days in Cambridge, the exhibition is a homecoming.

As a potter, but also as a writer about ceramics, Edmund de Waal has long reflected on how pots have been presented and perceived, from the mass produced teapot to the studio crafted object, and their relationship to the buildings they inhabit. His work is characterised by the repetition of the simplest, cylindrical, porcelain forms, each distorted by the hand and in their firing.

Using the variety of spaces in the gallery and extending into the house with its permanent collection, de Waal has created a series of site-specific installations. The first, A Change in the Weather, offers the visitor a pot for each day of the year. Further on, there are pots in a skylight, on shelves and in boxes, and running beneath the front windows. In the last space, we are invited to glimpse into a room - a wunderkammer - lined with plates and stacked vessels. In the house, smaller installations replace the normal pots and find their way into bookshelves.

Alongside the show will be a symposium and a musical event devised by Kettle's Yard New Music Fellow, Anton Lukoszevieze - details to be announced.

The exhibition is organised in association with the newly opened MIMA in Middlesbrough where it will later be seen. It will be accompanied by a book including photographs of the installations by Helene Binet.