Biography

Charles Bound was born in New York City in 1939. After graduating from Union University in 1962 with a degree in English Literature, Charles spent the next three years teaching at secondary level. From 1965 to 1971 he worked for a publishing company, dividing his time between the USA and Africa. By 1972 he was juggling a variety of commitments; teaching, traveling, writing and theatre work, mostly in Kenya.

Charles did not come to study ceramics until 1983, setting up a studio while working as a college technician and teaching. In 1994 he was gifted the use of space on a farm where he could build his own wood fired kiln, which he has been working with since.

Charles and his wife Joy currently live and work in Wales.

Forthcoming Events

Current
Oxford Ceramics
8th - 22nd May 2010
Oxford Town Hall, St. Aldgates, Oxford
Contemporary Ceramics, London
Contemporary Ceramics currently has a small collection of work that can be viewed by arrangement.

Later this year
Art in Clay
6th, 7th, 8th August, 2010
16th Pottery and Ceramics Festival
Hatfield House, Hatfield, Hertfordshire AL9 5NQ
La Borne Woodfire
20 September - 1 October, 2010
11th Intenational professional meeting
Centre de céramique contemporaine de La Borne, 18250 Henrichemont, France

Solo Exhibitions

United Kingdom:

Alpha House Gallery, Sherborne

Anthony Hepworth Fine Art, Bath

Copernican Connection, Yorkshire

The Design Innovation Centre, Leeds

European Ceramics, Leeds

Hart Gallery, London

Primavera, Cambridge

Group Exhibitions

United Kingdom:

Alpha House Gallery, Sherborne

Amalgam, London

Anatol Orient, London

Artsite Gallery, Bath

Boothhouse Gallery, Yorkshire

Bradford Design Exchange

Candover Gallery, Hampshire

Collect at the V&A, London (with the Hart Gallery)

Contemporary Ceramics, London (with the Hart Gallery)

Deardon Gallery, Yorkshire

Hart Gallery, London

Leach Gallery, Studio and Museum , St. Ives

Monmouth Museum

Octogan Gallery, Whichford

Powdermills Gallery, Dartmoor

Rufford County Park, Ollerton

France:

Galerie Hamelin, Honfleur

Maison de la Ceramique, Giroussens

Printemps des Potiers, Bandol

Germany:

Galerie Handwerk, Munich

New Zealand:

Fletcher Challenge

U.S.A.:

SOFA, Chicago

Bibliograpy

Tony Birks, 'Charles Bound', Ceramique et du Verre, #86, March/April 1996, pp44-45

Tony Birks, The Complete Potter's Companion, Conran Octopus, (1993)

Charles Bound, 'Getting It Right', Ceramic Review, #192, November/December 2001

Charles Bound, 'Fired Earth', Ceramic Review, #224, March/April 2007

Nicole Crestou, 'Les Printemps des Potiers', Ceramique et du Verre, #127, November/December 2002, p52

Emmanuel Cooper, Ten Thousand Years of Pottery Fourth Edition, 2000

Jim Robison, 'Letting Go', Ceramic Review, #155, September/October 1995, pp38-41

Jim Robison, Large Scale Ceramics, A & C Black, 1997

Jane Waller, The Human Form in Clay, Crowood Press, 2001

Daving Whiting, 'Charles Bound - New Ceramics', Craft Magazine, March/April 2002, p56