Lapidarium: The Secret Lives of Stones

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Includes the stories of various chemists, archaeologists, jewelers, prospectors, collectors, among others.

Judah's pages are filled with eccentrics and inventors, with the obsessive pursuit of beauty, the hopeful constructions of belief and the thirst for progress and improvement. I truly lost myself reading this book and discovering how important stones are to us all even in our modern age.

A supporter of Arts Emergency she has mentored artists and students through a variety of different schemes. We are experiencing delays with deliveries to many countries, but in most cases local services have now resumed. From the hematite used in cave paintings to the moldavite that became a TikTok sensation; from the stolen sandstone of Scone to the unexpected acoustics of Stonehenge; from crystal balls to compasses, rocks and minerals have always been central to our story.

She regularly talks about art and with artists for museum and gallery events, and has been a visiting lecturer for Goldsmiths University, London and Dauphine University, Paris.Upcoming books include How Not To Exclude Artist Mothers (and other parents) (Lund Humphries, September 2022) and Lapidarium (John Murray, London, October 2022/ Penguin, NY, March 2023). years ago Babylonians constructed lapidaries - books that tried to pin down the magical secrets of rocks.