Stan Portus is a writer and editor whose work has appeared in C Magazine, Ossian Magazine, Photomonitor, Emotional Art Magazine, Design Exchange Magazine, Review 31 and others.

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EP Vol. 3: Post-Craft
Sternberg Press

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2022

EP Vol. 3: Post-Craft, edited by Alex Coles and Catharine Rossi, examines the practice, interpretation and mediation of craft. For this publication, Stan Portus researched the writing of craft historian and critic Peter Dormer informing the selections of Dormer texts included in this publication from Sternberg Press. (...)

Meet Me in the Present: Documents and their Afterlives
Royal College of Art

Publication

2017

Meet Me In The Present: Documents and their Afterlives is an anthology of essays which examines the power of collective action. Spanning twenty-one acts of resistance — from letters exchanged between black power activists to the ethos of protest being brought into the Victoria and Albert Museum — these essays consider what it means to survive against all odds within a changing society. Drawing from the motives and experiences of those who have protected the right to access shared resources, Meet Me in the Present tells the stories of these diverse defenders. The book calls for public spaces, and for ideas to be made public in a time when ‘the commons’ is increasingly under attack. (...)

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