Dan Arbeid (2 April 1928 - 19 September 2010) was an English studio potter, considered innovative with a radical use of handbuilding techniques.[1]
Early life and education
Arbeid was born into a secular Jewish family in Stepney, East London. Having left school in 1942 he worked as a tailor for thirteen years.[2] Looking for a change in direction, Arbeid travelled to Israel where he stayed on a kibbutz before moving to Beersheba to join the Harsa Pottery ceramic art department working with Nehemia Azaz.[3] In 1957 he became a pottery technician at Central School of Art and Design,[4] and later lectured there and at Camberwell College of Arts.[2]