Julian Stair is a potter and writer with work in over 20 international public collections including the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen. He is currently working towards Quietus, an Arts Council England funded touring solo exhibition at mima opening July 2012. Academic posts include Research Fellow at the Royal College of Art and Senior Research Fellow at the University of the Arts, where he was a core member of the recent AHRC project Forgotten Japonisme. Recent publications include an essay for the Courtauld Institute of Art’s Beyond Bloomsbury: Designs of the Omega Workshops 1913-19.