Julian Stair is one of the UK’s leading potters. He studied at Camberwell School of Art and the RCA. He has exhibited internationally since 1982 and has work in over 30 public collections including the V&A Museum, British Museum, American Museum of Art & Design, New York, Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art, Japan, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Kolumba Museum, Cologne, Grassi Museum, Leipzig, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Recent solo exhibitions include Art, Death and the Afterlife, (Sainsbury Centre, Norwich 2023), Equivalenze, (Fondazione ICA Milano, Milan 2019), Equivalence, (Corvi-Mora Gallery, London 2018), Quotidian (Corvi-Mora Gallery, London 2014-15) and Quietus: The Vessel, Death and the Human Body, (MIMA, National Museum Wales Cardiff, Winchester Cathedral, Somerset House, London 2012-14, Manchester Cathedral 2016). Recent exhibitions include Deep Horizons, (MIMA 2023), New Areas, (Walmer Yard, London, & Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire 2023), Other Lives, (Oxford Ceramics Gallery, 2022), Lust auf Lustheim: Meissen Inspired Modern Ceramics, (Schloss Lustheim, Munich 2022), Frieze Art Fair (London 2014-2021), Rob Barnard, Robert Burnier, Julian Stair, (Corvi-Mora Gallery, London 2021), Inner Lives, (Branch Museum, Richmond, Virginia, USA 2021), Started it in England: Leach and Hamada, in Two Ways, (Mashiko Museum, Japan 2020).