Danish ceramicist Axel Salto was a radical polymathic figure who crossed boundaries from one discipline to another, and is considered one of the greatest masters of 20th-century ceramic art.

After studying at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Salto travelled to Paris where he met Picasso and Matisse. An accomplished poet and author, he founded the influential Danish art journal Klingen, an important forum for critical thinking in Denmark.

Curated by Edmund de Waal, this exhibition at The Hepworth Wakefield presents an extraordinary body of ceramic work alongside paintings, wood-cuts, drawings, book illustration and textiles.