The renewal of interest in a range of craft practices today foregrounds the ambiguous role of amateur making in modernity and its relationship with art and design practice in contemporary and historical contexts. My research covers the broad terrain of modern craft history and theory, with a particular focus on everyday making. I am the author of Amateur Craft: History and Theory (Bloomsbury, 2015), a book derived from my AHRC-funded Collaborative Doctoral Award (CDA) PhD at the Royal College of Art/Victoria and Albert Museum.Īdditionally, I am one of the editors of The Journal of Modern Craft and have written articles for a range of publications, both academic, such as Design and Culture, West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History and Material Culture and non-academic, including Crafts, Ceramic Review, Art Jewelry Forum. In 2018 Stephen curated Tendenser at Galleri F15 in Moss, Norway, a showcase of contemporary craft and edited the accompanying catalogue, and is co-curator for Presence and Absence at the Crafts Study Centre (2021-22), an exhibition which responds to the lack of diversity within the Centre's collections. I have a range of teaching experience on both undergraduate and postgraduate courses. I joined Kingston in December 2015 after lecturing posts at Liverpool Hope University, Camberwell College of Arts (University of the Arts, London), the Royal College of Art, the University of Creative Arts, and Buckingham University. Read the Instructions for Authors for information on how to submit your article.I am a writer, researcher and lecturer in contemporary craft, craft theory and histories of everyday life. ![]() ![]() The Journal of Modern Craft gratefully welcomes this and all other support that it receives.Īuthors can choose to publish gold open access in this journal. The Journal of Modern Craft is the main scholarly voice on the subject of craft, conceived both as an idea and as a field of practice in its own right.įunded in part by the Windgate Charitable Foundation with support from The Centre for Craft, Creativity & Design, whose mission is to advance the understanding of craft by encouraging and supporting research, scholarship and professional development. The journal also reviews and analyses the relevance of craft within new media, folk art, architecture, design, contemporary art and other fields. Special emphasis is placed on studio practice, and on the transformations of indigenous forms of craft activity throughout the world. ![]() The journal covers craft in all its historical and contemporary manifestations, from the mid-nineteenth century, when handwork was first consciously framed in opposition to industrialization, through to the present day, when ideas once confined to the “applied arts” have come to seem vital across a huge range of cultural activities. It addresses all forms of making that self-consciously set themselves apart from mass production-whether in the making of designed objects, artworks, buildings, or other artefacts. The Journal of Modern Craft is the first peer-reviewed academic journal to provide an interdisciplinary and international forum in its subject area.
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