Image © Julian Stair
Image © Julian Stair
Image © Julian Stair
Image © Julian Stair
Julian Stair OBE
Ossuary for Mammoth Ivory, 2024
hand-built Happisburgh till, mammoth ivory (800,000 – 1.2 million BCE), flux and mineralised bone (800,000 BCE)
8 x 22 x 14 cm
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For The Extinction Collection Julian has created a collection of small Ossuary from the ancient clay sediments from Happisburgh, salvaged from the beach when eroded from the cliffs. They contain...
For The Extinction Collection Julian has created a collection of small Ossuary from the ancient clay sediments from Happisburgh, salvaged from the beach when eroded from the cliffs. They contain the relics of mammoths and other species made extinct by historic climate change.
Julian Stair is one of the UK’s leading potters. He studied at Camberwell School of Art and the RCA. He has exhibited internationally since 1982 and has work in over 30 public collections including the V&A Museum, British Museum, American Museum of Art & Design, New York and The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Recent solo exhibitions include Art, Death and the Afterlife, (Sainsbury Centre, Norwich 2023). He is a leading historian of English studio ceramics. He completed a PhD at the RCA in 2002 researching the critical origins of English studio pottery and has written extensively. Julian’s essays have been published by Routledge, Bloomsbury, the Courtauld Institute, Tate Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art. He was awarded an OBE in 2022 for his services to ceramics.
Julian Stair is one of the UK’s leading potters. He studied at Camberwell School of Art and the RCA. He has exhibited internationally since 1982 and has work in over 30 public collections including the V&A Museum, British Museum, American Museum of Art & Design, New York and The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Recent solo exhibitions include Art, Death and the Afterlife, (Sainsbury Centre, Norwich 2023). He is a leading historian of English studio ceramics. He completed a PhD at the RCA in 2002 researching the critical origins of English studio pottery and has written extensively. Julian’s essays have been published by Routledge, Bloomsbury, the Courtauld Institute, Tate Gallery and the Yale Center for British Art. He was awarded an OBE in 2022 for his services to ceramics.
