Dan Arbeid

Dan Arbeid (2 April 1928 - 19 September 2010) was an English studio potter, considered innovative with a radical use of hand-building techniques.

[1] 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.

[5] His work was exhibited at the Primavera Gallery and is also featured in the William Alfred Ismay collection[6] and the Victoria and Albert Museum.