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Julian Stair (born 1955 in Bristol) is an English potter, academic and writer . Concerned with questions of functionality and site-specific installation, his work re-examines familiar historical pottery idioms within a contemporary context and celebrates the social, cultural and multi-sensory aspect of pottery. He makes groups of work using a variety of materials, from fine glazed porcelain to coarse engineering brick clays, which provide a rich palette of colours and textures. His work ranges in scale from hand-sized cups and teapots to monumental jars at over 6 feet tall and weighing half a ton.

Stair has exhibited internationally over the last 30 years and has work in over twenty public collections including the Victoria & Albert Museum, British Council, American Museum of Art & Design, Hong Kong Museum of Art and the Boymans Museum, Netherlands. In 2004 he was awarded the European Achievement Award by the World Crafts Council for the project Extended Inhumation, and received a Queen Elizabeth Scholarship to research the making of monumental ceramics at Wienerberger’s brick factory in Sedgley. In 2008 the Art Fund purchased Monumental Jar V for Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (mima).

His most recent project is the solo exhibition Quietus: The Vessel, Death and the Human Body which has been commissioned by mima and supported by Arts Council England. It runs between 13 July 2012 – 11 November 2012 and will tour to National Museum Cardiff and Winchester Cathedral in 2013. The exhibition addresses the containment of the human body in death and features a series of funerary works, from cinerary jars to life-size sarcophagi.

Education and work

Julian Stair studied Ceramics at Camberwell School of Art from 1974-1978, and at the Royal College of Art from 1978-1981. He completed a PhD in Critical Writing on English Studio Pottery: 1910-1940 at the Royal College of Art in 2002. He was a trustee of the Crafts Council and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

He lives and works in South London.

Academic career

Stair is a Principle Research Fellow at the University of Westminster. He was Senior Lecturer at the University of Roehampton, London, (1987-1998); Fellow in Craft & Criticism at the University of Northumbria, (1998-1999); Research Fellow at the Royal College of Art, (2004); and Senior Research Fellow at University of Arts, London, (2002-2011). He is an alumnus of Cape Farewell, an interdisciplinary programme that explores a sustained artistic response to climate change. He joined the 2008 Disko Bay Expedition, visiting West Greenland with over 40 international artists, journalists and scientists.

He has been a regular contributor to ceramic journals since the mid-1980s. Recent publications include ‘The Employment of Matter: Pottery of the Omega Workshop’, contributing essay to Beyond Bloomsbury: Designs of the Omega Workshop 1913-19, Courtauld Gallery, London.

Selected Exhibitions and installations

Julian Stair works to commission, . Recent commissions include a group of works for the State Apartments at Chatworth House, Derbyshire, a 130-piece installation for a private London client, and several groups for the Hong Kong and Singapore offices of Fidelity Investment.

Awards, nominations and grants

Selected Public Collections

References

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