CERAMICS AND MODERNITY IN JAPAN
‘The spark that ignited the flame: Hamada Shoji, Paterson’s Gallery and the Birth of English Studio Pottery’, Ceramics and Modernity in Japan, Routledge, 2019
THINGS OF BEAUTY GROWING: BRITISH STUDIO POTTERY
'From Precepts to Praxis: The Origins of British Studio Pottery' Yale University Press, 2017
THE CERAMICS READER
‘Re-Inventing the Wheel: the origins of studio pottery’, Bloomsbury, 2017
THAT CONTINUOUS THING - ARTISTS AND THE CERAMICS STUDIO, 1920 TODAY
‘Factive Plasticity: The Abstract Pottery of William Staite Murray’, Tate, 2016
ART AND LIFE 1920 – 1931 BEN NICHOLSON, WINIFRED NICHOLSON
“Factive Plasticity: The Abstract Pottery of William Staite Murray” Catalogue essay for Touring exhibitons at: Dulwich Picture Gallery, Leeds Museums and Galleries, Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge, Philip Wilson, 2013
BEYOND BLOOMSBURY DESIGNS OF THE OMEGA WORKSHOP 1913-19
‘The Employment of Matter: Pottery of the Omega Workshop’ London: Courtauld Gallery, 2009
SELECTED WRITING
EUROPEAN TRIENNIAL FOR CERAMICS AND GLASS
‘Hybridity, Interpretation and Consumption: New Ceramics and Glass in Britain Today’ Mons, Belgium: World Crafts Council
ART IN AMERICA
‘Duckworth's Volumes and Planes’ Dec 2005, Vol. 93 Issue 11, p128
SHOJI HAMADA MASTER POTTER
‘Genius and Circumstance: Early Criticism of Hamada's Pottery in England’ Lund Humphries Pub Ltd (June 1998)
CERAMIC REVIEW
‘The Mundane and Extraordinary’ no. 216 Nov/Dec 2005, p. 20-23.
Contemporary Clay and Museum Culture
‘Contemporary Clay and Museum Culture’,
ed. Christie Brown, Julian Stair, Clare Twomey, Routledge, 2016
The Persistence of Craft
‘Re-inventing the Wheel: the origins of Studio Pottery’,
‘The Persistence of Craft: The Applied Arts Today’
ed. Paul Greenhalgh, A & C Black, 2002
The Body Politic
‘The Body Politic: the Role of the Body and Contemporary Craft’,
ed. Julian Stair, Crafts Council, 2000.
PhD
Critical Writing on English Studio Pottery 1910 – 1940
Julian is an authority on the history of studio ceramics and has published numerous essays on the origins of studio pottery, William Staite Murray, the Omega Workshop and Hamada. He completed his PhD on the history of critical writing on English studio pottery 1910-1940 at the Royal College of Art in 2002.