David Jones was born in 1953. He graduated in Philosophy and Literature from the University of Warwick in 1974. He has been a Senior Lecturer  in the Ceramics Department at the University of Wolverhampton for the past twenty years. He is a Fellow of the Crafts Potter Association of England.

My work is in and about Raku; and also within the Philosophies and practices of firing in general. I have recently created two installed exhibitions that start to deal with the relationship of the installed exhibition to architectural space, and the narratives – both personal and generic - that inform it. First in 2002 “Fixing Light - Fixing Fire”, which toured to four state-run galleries in UK. Then in 2006 “Durch das Feuer Gehen”, at the Westerwald Museum, Germany. In  2005 I was invited to participate in the International Raku Symposium and Exhibition: “Raku: Origins, Impact and Contemporary Expression” (curated by Jim Romberg and Rick Hirsch), which toured to 5 galleries in the USA).

I have presented papers at many conferences discussing the essence of ceramics and craft and have also authored two books examining the nature of firing from a philosophical point of view.
“Raku – Investigations into Fire” (Crowood Press 1999) ISBN: 1-86126-139-x
“Firing  - Philosophies within contemporary ceramic practice”. (Crowood Press 2007). ISBN: 978 1 86126 935 5