Julian Stair

Julian Stair is one of the UK’s leading potters. He studied at Camberwell School of Art and the RCA. He has exhibited internationally for more than five decades and his work is represented in over 30 international public collections including the V&A; British Museum; American Museum of Art & Design, New York; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC; Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art, Japan; Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Kolumba Museum, Cologne; Grassi Museum, Leipzig; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

Recent solo exhibitions include Mr. Hamada Walking (Old Hamada’s House, Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art, Japan, 2024), Art, Death and the Afterlife (Sainsbury Centre, Norwich, 2023), Equivalenze (Fondazione ICA Milano, Italy, 2019), Equivalence, (Corvi-Mora Gallery, London, 2018, Quotidian (Corvi-Mora Gallery, London, 2014-15), and Quietus: The Vessel, Death and the Human Body (Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art; National Museum Wales Cardiff; Winchester Cathedral; Somerset House, London; Manchester Cathedral (2012-2016). Recent group exhibitions include lights embracing, shadows touching (ACG Villa, Kyoto, Japan, 2024); Extinction Collection (UK national touring exhibition, 2024); Frieze Art Fair (London 2014-2024); The Inevitability of Vessels: Julian Stair and Shoji Kamoda (Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art, 2024); Lustauf Lustheim: Meissen Inspired Modern Ceramics, (Schloss Lustheim, Munich 2022). A regular contributor to ceramic publications since the 1980s, Julian is also an authority on the history of English studio ceramics. In 2022 he was awarded an OBE in 2022 for services to ceramics and in 2024 Yale University Press published a monograph on his work, ‘Julian Stair: Memory, Material, Ceramics’.