Martina Margetts's consistent aim has been to analyse and contextualise the practice of craft and design within contemporary visual culture and a global framework. Alongside teaching at the RCA, her books include International Crafts, (Thames and Hudson, 1991); Michael Rowe, (Lund Humphries, 2003); Tord Boontje, (Rizzoli, USA, 2007) and she has published numerous essays for books and exhibition catalogues, articles and reviews. Her exhibitions include the large-scale international touring shows The Raw and the Cooked: new work in clay in Britain (curated with Alison Britton), MOMA, Oxford/Barbican Art Gallery 1993-4; Objects of Our Time, 1996-7, Crafts Council, and Only Human: an exhibition about body and soul, 1999/2000, Crafts Council. She has lectured worldwide, in the last five years particularly in Scandinavia, contributing to the analysis of new applied arts ideas developing there. Her research has been published as bi-lingual essays in the books Innkjopt 1995-2000, (Forlaget Press, 2001); Brennpunkt Bergen, (Kunsthogskolen i Bergen, 2002), the Konstfack, (Stockholm prospectus 2005 and 2007) and Re:Form, (Arvinius Forlag, 2005).