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Walking around Clay / Salthouse Beach / October 6th / 1-4pm
A ceramic workshop inspired by archival footage of Nigerian Potter Lady Kwali coiling a pot.
Taking place in the vast openness of Salthouse beach, this workshop offers the opportunity for participants to create a vessel from clay, but without a flat surface or a turn table. Instead coils will be made in the air and pots will be elevated on wooden pillars to walk around. The backdrop of the growing pots continually repeating themselves as you walk in a circle, whilst providing an unintentional performance to other beach users.
This approach to using clay will encourage us to step away from our comfort zones and reconsider today’s ceramic processes.
*Vessels made will be fired and glazed on request at an additional cost.
£65 Materials, tools and cake included
Cuneiform in a field / Aylsham / September 22nd / 1-4pm
A clay workshop exploring ancient language and symbols.
A meditative session outside in nature, exploring the first signs of written language. We'll practice cuneiform communications through translating messages and create a collection of cuneiform tablets. Learn traditional hand-building techniques and how to use specially made reed tools for mark marking. Your cuneiform tablets will then be fired and delivered back to you in a clay envelope.
*This workshop includes walking to a secluded destination and working at low level to the ground.
£45 Materials, tools and cake included
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Ceramic Pit Firing / 9 Trory Street / October (4 weeks)
October 2nd & 9th ~ 6-8pm : Making and burnishing at Trory St
October 27th* ~ 10am onwards : Pit firing near Burnham Market
October 30th ~ 6-8pm : Cleaning and polishing at Trory St
A rare opportunity to produce and participate in a ceramic pit firing, where natural ingredients are used to leave flashings of colour upon the surface, such as banana skins, seaweed and coffee.
During the first 2 sessions you will be guided in hand building a pair of clay objects which you'll burnish ready for the firing. These works will be fired and transported to the pit where we will meet for the firing on Sunday 27th.
This workshop of making and firing will be led by both ceramicist Rose Brettingham and artist Rachel Kurdynowska.
£145 Materials and pit firing coffee & cake included
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*Firing date may change depending on weather
SLOW CLAY : Slip Series extended / 9 Trory Street
Wednesday 10-1pm (ongoing)
This is an ongoing session please email if you are interested in joining.
A chance to become better acquainted with the ceramic material of slip.
- Explore making press moulds.
- Making and processing slip through experimentation.
- Fired testing.
- Repeat.
£295 Materials and coffee included
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