(2002–2011). He is an alumnus of Cape Farewell, UK, an interdisciplinary programme that explores a sustained artistic response to climate change. He joined the 2008 Disko Bay Expedition, visiting West Greenland with over 40 international artists, journalists and scientists. He has been a regular contributor to ceramic journals since the mid-1980s. Recent publications include 'The Employment of Matter: Pottery of the Omega Workshop’, contributing essay to Beyond Bloomsbury: Designs of the Omega Workshop 1913–19, Courtauld Gallery, London, ‘Factive Plasticity: The Abstract Pottery of William Staite Murray’, catalogue essay for Ben Nicholson, Winifred Nicholson, Christopher Wood, Alfred Wallis & William Staite Murray: Art and Life 1920-1931, Leeds Art Gallery, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge & Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, ‘The Origins of Studio Pottery: From Precepts to Praxis’, catalogue essay for Things of Beauty Growing, Yale Centre for British Art, USA, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and ‘The spark that ignited the flame: 1923, Hamada, Paterson’s Gallery and English studio pottery’, Ceramics, Art and Cultural Production in Modern Japan. Selected exhibitions and installations Stair works to commission. Recent commissions include a group of works for the state apartments at Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, a 130-piece installation for a private London client, and an external installation of work in the gardens of the American Ambassador's residence at Winfield House, London. 2017 - "Things of Beauty Growing", Yale Center for British Art, Newhaven, USA 2017 - "Material : Earth", Messum's Wiltshire, UK, Exempla Art Far, Munich, Germany, TEFAF Maastricht, Netherlands, 2016 - "Re-naturing the Vessel: the shared approach of Julian Stair and Simone ten Hompel", Rosemarie Jäger Gallery, Hochheim, Frankfurt, Germany & Oxford Ceramics Gallery, UK 2016 - ‘Big Ceramics’, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, ‘Cause and Effect’, National Centre for Craft and Design, Seaford, ‘Frieze’, Corvi-Mora Gallery, London 2016 - Quietus Revisited, Manchester Cathedral, UK 2015 - "Vessels: The Spirit of Modern British Ceramics," Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art, Japan, ‘Frieze’, Corvi-Mora Gallery, London, Contemporary Applied Arts, London 2014 - Quietus, Somerset House, London, UK 2014 - Quotidian", Corvi-Mora Gallery, London, UK 2014 - Vivarium", Corvi-Mora Gallery, London, 'Frieze’, Corvi-Mora Gallery, London, ‘Legacy, Two Works About Hope and Memory’, Forty Hall, London & Collect, Saatchi Gallery, London 2014 - Quietus, Somerset House, London, UK 2013 - Quietus, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, Winchester Cathedral, Winchester, UK 2013 - "The Matter of Life and Death," York Museum, UK 2012 – Quietus, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, UK (touring to National