Julian Stair

Julian Stair is a British potter who makes everything from hand-sized porcelain cups to monumental jars and funerary vessels in coarse brick clay. Born in Bristol, he studied ceramics at Camberwell School of Art and the Royal College of Art, where he later took a PhD on English studio pottery. His work is in more than thirty public collections, including the V&A, the British Museum and the Fitzwilliam Museum. He was appointed OBE in 2022 for services to ceramics and lives in South London.