POTTERY DOCUMENTARY | Young, Fearless & Fired in Clay: Charlie Collier | GOLDMARK

A documentary introducing Charlie Collier in the lead up to his being the youngest ever potter to exhibit at the prestigious Goldmark Gallery.

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'Charlie has learnt his craft the old-fashioned way, through years of practice, observation and sheer hard work. The results are everywhere to be seen in this exhibition. His pots show a mastery and a fluency that cannot be achieved in any other way.' Clive Bowen, 2026.

Collier’s interest in pottery began at college, where he became absorbed by throwing on the wheel and by studying pots from different cultures and periods. Visiting workshops and learning from other makers, including Mike Dodd, Clive Bowen and Svend Bayer, confirmed his desire to pursue the craft, drawn by the sense of continuity within a long and shared tradition.

After college, he became an apprentice at Whichford Pottery in the Cotswolds, where years of hands-on training gave him a strong technical foundation and the confidence to develop his own designs. Alongside this, he set up a home studio, exploring reduction-fired stoneware and later becoming involved in wood-firing projects, including long anagama firings that shaped his understanding of kiln building and surface.

Collier makes pots for use, believing that well-made, beautiful objects naturally belong in everyday life. He sees no real distinction between art and function, valuing form above all else and allowing materials and process to guide the outcome. Informed by tradition but not bound by it, his work aims for clarity, honesty and vitality — qualities that allow each pot to carry something of the maker’s character while remaining open to the user.

Goldmark Films is the Pro Moviemaker Filmmaker of the Year and four-times Royal Television Society Award nominated independent film making arm of the world-renowned Goldmark Gallery. It has been producing broadcast arts documentaries for over 20 years and has made 24 feature length documentaries and 100 plus shorts. Goldmark's global reputation allows it to gain intimate and revealing interviews with some of the world's leading artists, ceramicists, writers and critics. Its films on contemporary artists are complemented by a stable of programmes unveiling the fascinating life stories of both the famous and the forgotten painters, potters and sculptors of the 20th century.
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Goldmark is an art and ceramics gallery, Royal Television Society-nominated film maker, book publisher, printmaker and scholarship hub. A shop like no other! A selling gallery of national and international significance, it has stood at the heart of Uppingham, for over half a century. The gallery's investment in and support of artists and potters means it now owns over 50,000 works of art, represents the estates of several major 20th-century artists and has exclusive representation of major potters from Japan and Korea to Denmark, the UK and the USA. Its bespoke exhibitions tour public and commercial UK galleries every year.
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