Martina Margetts

History

Career Path: Martina Margetts is Senior Tutor in Critical & Historical Studies at the Royal College of Art in London, specialising in craft. She was for nine years Editor of Crafts magazine and a senior member of staff at the Crafts Council. Her books include International Crafts (Thames and Hudson 1991), Michael Rowe (Lund Humphries 2003) and Tord Boontje (Rizzoli USA, 2007). She has curated major international touring exhibitions including The Raw and the Cooked: new work in clay in Britain (MOMA, Oxford and Barbican, London 1993), Objects of Our Time (Crafts Council 1996) and Only Human (Crafts Council 1999). She was a crafts adviser to Arts Council England from 1999 to 2007 and is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Modern Craft. She lectures, curates and writes internationally and was a judge and conference speaker at the 2009 International Crafts Biennale in South Korea. www.rca.ac.uk