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Charles Bound
[edit]Charles Bound (b.1939) is a U.S. potter and artist resident in Welshpool, Powys, Wales. Born in New York City, he spent much of his life in Africa, before moving to England in 1983 and studying ceramics at Jacob Kramer Art College (now Leeds Arts University).1 His work is found in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich. Bound is represented by several commercial galleries including Contemporary Ceramics in London and Fire and Flux, Norwich.
Bound’s stoneware is fired in an Anagama kiln at >1200 degrees, resulting in vitrification and hard, non-porous surfaces. Preferring ash glazes to slips, his pottery – non-functional vessels as well as expressive, sculptural forms -- are brown to black in hue, with other additional (accidental) color highlights. His urns, amphora and bottles (some over three meters high) recall functional pottery made by women of the Gwari community in Nigeria as well as Japanese Tanba and Tsubo storage jars from the 14th Century. The rusticity, imperfection and expressivity of his pottery thus engages the traditional mingei or folk aesthetic of wabi-sabi.
In addition to vessel forms, Bound creates tall stelae, influenced he has said, by the American potter/sculptor Stephen De Staebler. Bound’s large plates or chargers recall similar forms by Peter Voulkos, the key figure in the California Clay Movement (American Clay Revolution), that pushed ceramics away from function and toward Abstract Expressionism and Art Informel.
Charles Bound is also a painter. A selection of these works – all gestural abstractions -- were exhibited at Contemporary Ceramics in London in September 2024.
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[edit]Charles Bound “Comment: Getting It Right - Thoughts on just criticism”. Ceramic Review Issue 192. November/December 2001
Hess, Andre Hess “Knows No Bounds”. Ceramic Review Issue 325. January/February 2024
Stephen F. Eisenman “Art of the Formless: The Ceramics of Charles Bound”. Ceramics Now, July 30, 2026.