Graham Carr (1945- ) was born in Blackpool, England, but migrated to Australia in 1949, settling in Boya, Western Australia, a locality on the Darling Scarp, in the Shire of Mundaring. As a young man, he studied architecture at the Western Australian Institute of Technology, obtaining an Associateship in 1969. In 1978, he obtained a Diploma in Advanced Ceramics from Perth Technical College and began to make teapot forms in earthenware with a rough black glaze with patterned in brown or blue. Work was marked with an impressed 'GC'. He and his wife Tanija later turned to leatherwork and bronze.