2024 In a world, soon to be controlled by Artificial Intelligence, are there still reasons to make ceramics by hand? India Ceramics Triennial, Delhi. Invitational lecture.
2023 Crafting Identity. Keynote lecture for “Conversations with Potters” conference, addressing the place of “the hand” in a world of evolving AI dominance. Bangkok, Thailand.
2022 Making, Tracing: A Journey Back From England to the Polish Stetl. Online discussion focused on my work, with Julia Weiner (curator of Making Ceramics at Jewish Museum). Presentation and discussion for Insider/Outsider platform on the contributions of Migrants to the UK.
2021 Meditations on Contact after COVID. Lecture presented at NCECA. USA Online conference.
2019 Understandings hinted at in the re-construction of Negative Space. Keynote address given at “Crafting the Body”. Conference, University College for the Arts, Farnham, UK
2018 You can take Orientalia out of the Orient but you can’t take the Orient out of Orientalia. IAC international congress. Yingge Museum, Taiwan
2017 Porcelain Reflections: International Selected exhibition, (advisor to the curator), and tour to Dubi, Czech Republic. Keynote lecture on Contemporary Porcelain expression. [Catalogue]
2017 Heritage and Diversity: joint curator (with Professor Boo-Yun Lee) of conference addressing the inter-relationship of European and Korean Ceramics. Hanyang University museum and art gallery, Seoul, South Korea. [Catalogue]
2016 The Road to Rumbola, Lectures and catalogue essay, created at the Mark Rothko Institute, Daugavpils, Latvia. [Catalogue]
2011 Römhild International Ceramics Symposium. Exhibition, Germany.
2011 A decline in standards – a critical discussion of the contributions of Bernard Leach and Marcel Duchamp to contemporary ceramics. NCECA, Tampa, Florida, USA
2001-2011 Earth and Fire. (CPA Ceramic Fair). Master of ceremonies and exhibitor.
2010 10th. Anniversary symposium of anagama-fired ceramics, Tallinn, Estonia.
2009 Making Futures. Conference paper (peer reviewed and presented) at Plymouth College of Art, Mt. Edgcumbe, Devon.
2009 China research trip (sponsored by British Council) to Sujhou and Jingdezheng
2008 keynote conference presentation at Keramikei VII, Afyon University, Turkey
2008 Curator and organiser of, and artist in, the British contingent to create new work in a month-long residency for Flicam, Fule, International Ceramic Art Museum, China Shaanxi, China. (Arts Council Sponsored)
2007 New Crafts Future Voices. Conference on the Crafts. Selected to present 5000-word paper on Synchronicity and the Crafts. conference proceedings. ISBN: 1 899837 55 8
2007 Invited to lead a panel discussion on Theories of Display And Installation at the NCECA conference in Kentucky USA.
2007 Masterclass. CNIFOP, Burgundy, France
2005 The Firing. Contributor to the BBC Radio 4 programme
2005 International Raku Symposium and exhibition. invited exhibitor and keynote speaker. Grand Junction, Colorado, USA. Tour to: the American Museum of Ceramic Art in Pomona, California [with Paul Soldner, Rick Hirsch, Jim Romberg]
2004 Appledore Art and Ceramics Festival. Demonstrator and Master Class at Bideford Art Gallery and Museum
Clay Modern. Gulgong, Australia. Exhibitor and keynote speaker
Ist. Ceramics Biennale, Yingge, Taiwan. Exhibitor and delegate
2001 Raku. Organiser and chair of symposium at Rufford Ceramic Centre
2001 Raku. Invited international demonstrator and keynote speaker and exhibitor at symposium at Biseul arts Centre, Korea
2000 Art in Clay, Keynote Speaker and Exhibitor, Hatfield House.
1999 East meets West, Conference, Keynote Speaker (with Takeshi Yasuda, and Sandy Brown).
Scottish Potters 25th. Anniversary, Conference. Keynote Demonstrator / Speaker,
1997 British/Israeli Arts Foundation, Conference, Lecture Tour and Demonstrations, Exhibition. Jerusalem, Tel Hai, Israel.
Popularity and Populism, Conference– a Discussion of the Turner Prize, Keynote Speaker, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland.
The Impenetrability of Surface, Conference, Keynote Speaker, Organiser and Chair, University of Wolverhampton.
Pottery in the Making, Demonstration /Lecture, British Museum, London.
300 Tons of Clay, Conference, Co – Chair, Wolverhampton.
1994 The International and Japanese Ceramic Tradition, Symposium, Keynote Speaker and Demonstrator, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
1993 Lectures and demonstrations in Tokyo, Nagoya, Tokoname, Japan