Julian Stair

He makes groups of work using a variety of materials, from fine glazed porcelain to coarse engineering brick clays.

His work ranges in scale from hand-sized cups and teapots to monumental jars at over 6 feet tall and weighing half a ton.

[citation needed] Recent projects include the solo exhibitions:'Art, Death and the Afterlife', Sainsbury Centre, Norwich, 'Equivalence', (Corvi-Mora Gallery, London, 'Quotidian', the re-imagining of the historic 'Grand Service at Corvi-Mora Gallery, London and Quietus: The Vessel, Death and the Human Body which was commissioned by mima and supported by Arts Council England.

This exhibition addressed the containment of the human body in death and featured a series of funerary works, from cinerary jars to life-size sarcophagi.

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, 'Factive Plasticity: The Abstract Pottery of William Staite Murray', catalogue essay for Ben Nicholson, Winifred Nicholson, Christopher Wood, Alfred Wallis & William Staite Murray: Art and Life 1920-1931, Leeds Art Gallery, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge & Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, 'The Origins of Studio Pottery: From Precepts to Praxis', catalogue essay for Things of Beauty Growing, Yale Centre for British Art, USA, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and 'The spark that ignited the flame: 1923, Hamada, Paterson's Gallery and English studio pottery', Ceramics, Art and Cultural Production in Modern Japan.