Julian Stair
TrAIN Member - Research Fellow
Julian Stair is a potter and writer, his doctoral research concerned the critical origins of English studio pottery, and in 2004 he received a Queen Elizabeth Scholarship to research the making of monumental work in a Staffordshire brick factory. He is one of four core members of TrAIN now working on the ARHC project Forgotten Japonisme.
A regular contributor to craft journals, he was Fellow in Craft and Criticism at the University of Northumbria and is presently a Visiting Professor of Ceramics and Theory at Camberwell College of Arts. He has exhibited internationally for the past 25 years, and his work is in several public collections, including those of the Victoria & Albert Museum, British Council, American Museum of Art & Design, Hong Kong Museum of Art and Boymans Museum, Netherlands. His most recent exhibition project was an installation for Manchester Museum’s Egyptian Galleries, entitled After Life.
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Forgotten Japonisme
Led by TrAIN Director Professor Toshio Watanabe, Forgotten Japonisme was a major three year research project funded by the AHRC. Between October 2007 and October 2010, this project explored a previously neglected period in the study of Western attitudes towards Japanese art: from the 1920s to the 1950s.
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Related Events
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Forgotten Japonisme The Taste for Japanese Art in Britain and the USA 1920s-1950s
Friday 09 Jul, 2010,
10:00 to 17:15
Saturday 10 Jul, 2010,
10:00 to 17:15
International conference at the Sackler Centre, V&A Museum, London. -
TrAIN Open Lecture - Examining Forgotten Japonisme: Process and outcome of a three-year research project’
Wednesday 06 Oct, 2010,
17:15 to 19:00
Lecture Theatre, Chelsea College of Art and Design (Atterbury Street entrance)
