Take your hand-building ceramic artworks to the next level. Students will expand upon previous knowledge to create more advanced clay sculptures. Students will focus on finding and developing their own voice in clay using various techniques that your tutor Tanya Bechara uses in her own practice. Students will develop their own style through experimentation and exploration. Includes handbuilding and sculptural techniques, surface treatments like airbrushing, sgraffitto, carving,...
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$300
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Advanced Hand-Building Ceramics with Tanya Bechara
This hand-building and sculpture class is ideal for teens looking for a tranquil, creative space to learn fundamental techniques to make and decorate clay surfaces, with a focus on surface decoration. New students will learn basic hand-building techniques like coiling, pinch pots, and slab work building up to more complex sculptural techniques as their skills and abilities develop. Experienced students will continue to develop and refine their skills with assisted instructions that...
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This 4 week course is designed to expose student’s to wide range of hand-building and surface treatment possibilities. The course is best suited to students who have completed a beginners hand-building course or have some experience with hand-building ceramics. Over the 4 week course we will explore next level hand-building techniques, work with different types of clay, experiment with a wide variety of surface treatments and explore glazing methods. Carol’s generosity in sharing...
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$400Limited
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Ceramics | Intermediate Hand-Building with Carol Hudson
Join sculptural ceramicist Stephanie Phillips, who was a 2024 Finalist in Australia's Next Top Designer, in this one-day contemporary ceramics workshop to create an architectural style sculpture or sculptural vase. Learn some expert tips including coiling methods to make your piece. Stephanie’s ceramic work is bold, textural, architectural, and always sculptural. She playfully manipulates negative space in and around each piece, making forms that are abstract and jaunty while at...
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Workshop | Contemporary Ceramics with Stephanie Phillips
This class will encourage creative freedom, uniqueness and quirky design. Guided by ceramic artist and teacher Isis Star, students will be encouraged to express themselves, experiment and most importantly embrace the joy and therapeutic nature of working with clay. This term class is ideal for teens looking to explore and develop their artistic voice through ceramic sculpture and hand building. Over 8 weeks each term, students will learn fundamental techniques used by ceramic...
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In this fun hand-building class you will create and decorate a totem based around a theme of interest to you. Perhaps botanical, magical or even abstract. No experience necessary! With her expertise, Lisa will help you plan and realise your ideas. Each participant will make a 60-80cm high ceramic totem for the house or garden. This is a great series of three workshop sessions introducing basic hand-building and glazing techniques, as well as composition and design. Bring along...
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This 4 week course with artist Carol Hudson, packs a wide range of ceramic hand-building techniques into 4 sessions. Designed to inspire, and ignite your creativity, this short course will give you the skills to get you started in making fabulous ceramics works. Carol’s classes are social, fun and rich in ideas and possibilities. She will share her secrets of making refined, beautiful, elegant and simple functional ceramics. What to expect Week 1: Pinch pot method with texture ...
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This 4 week course with the fabulous, well-known ceramicist Stephanie Phillips will give you the hand building skills and techniques used by Stephanie to create her stunning geometric, sculptural works. Stephanie’s generosity in sharing her tips, tricks and methods make these classes productive, and rich in ideas and information to get you making professional and unique works. What to expect Week 1: Design and plan In your first class you will begin with research, finding...
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Grab a friend for a 2.5 hour creative evening in our ceramics studio making your own handmade quirky little monsters. Purge your inner monster (or someone else’s) in this fun and therapeutic workshop. You will be introduced to basic clay hand-building techniques to make your monster. Be prepared to get addicted! What will you achieve You'll sculpt a little monster in clay that will be fired and ready to collect in about 3 weeks time. Your sculpture will be bisque-fired and then...
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Join well-known ceramicist Clare Unger in this unique hand-building class. You will create 2 handmade bowls that reflect your own story through textiles and texture. Clare’s current work is inspired by an inherited collection of textiles, which she began stitching and looking for ways to incorporate into her ceramics practice. Her desire to tell her personal stories and connect with others through shared memories is a powerful driver in the making of her work. In this workshop,...
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