WORKSHOPS

2 0 2 3 W O R K S H O P S

2 Day Hand built Serving dishes with spoon -
with Ronelle Clarke

Slip casting Cup + Drop Mould Workshop
with Ronelle Clarke

Sun 16th Jul 2023, 10:00 am - Sun 23rd Jul 2023, 1:00 pm AEST
Members: $180 • Non-Members: $280

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Sun 20th Aug 2023, 10:00 am - 2:30 pm AEST
Members: $150 • Non-Members: $250

Participants will learn how to make their own slipcasting mold. Using Potters plaster and a plastic found cup all participants will produce their own slipcasting mould that will be suitable to use to produce many cups.
Using clay, a plastic bucket, and a found cup all participants will make a form ready to cast. Pottery plaster will then be mixed and poured into the cottles to make the casting mold. While the cast sets I will demonstrate how to mix and pour a casting slip using one of my own dry molds.

Materials and morning tea included.

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This workshop is suitable for those with some clay experience

Check out Ronelle's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/clarkeronelle/

Raku Firing Workshop in August
with John Brighenti

Maximum of 6 attendees
Location:
GCPA: Mudgereeba Studio

Save the date August 13
9am - 3pm

Mudgeeraba Raku workshop 6 places

https://www.instagram.com/brighentidesign/

Slab Workshop with Tamasin Pepper

:
Sat 16th Sep 2023, 10:00 am - 3.00 pm AEST
Sun 17th Sep 2023, 10.00 am - 3:00 pm AEST

Location
GCPA: 173 Ashmore Rd, Benowa QLD

Participants will learn how to: join slabs to create an image, leaving joins exposed on one side, plus pressing textures into some slabs. You will then use these slabs to make a free-standing, wrapped form over a hump or in internal plaster molds, to make bowls or platters, adding a foot if desired. You will work with clay at it's various consistencies, soft to firmer (leather hard) and use finishing techniques to refine your forms. There will be a demonstration and discussion on how to later highlight with oxide and glaze.

Over the course of 2 days, materials and some equipment is supplied.

You will be emailed closer to the workshop date with a list of tools etc. you will need. Morning tea on both days is included. BYO lunch or lunch to share. Firing can be arranged should you require, at student firing fees.

Look Tamasin up on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tamasinpepper/

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Make a pot using - laguna flameware clay -
and then learn to cook with it over an open fire with Jason Roberts

Save the Date:
30 September - 1 October 2023

2 Day workshop with Jason Roberts at GCPA Benowa Studio
Max of 10 participants.

Details to be finalised and then advertised.
Have a look at Jason's Instagram page to see what we will be making: https://www.instagram.com/p/CpZpJMCg2mr/

The Clay Surface with Nicci Parry-Jones

Sat 9th Dec 2023, 9:30 am - 4.00 pm AEST
Sun 10th Dec 2023, 9.30 am - 4:00 pm AEST
Location
Gold Coast Potters Association
173 Ashmore Rd, Benowa QLD

There are infinite ways to decorate the clay surface. It can be done when the clay is soft, leather hard, bone dry, bisqued and after it has been glazed. It can be glazed and have decoration added and fired a third time with lustres and decals.
This workshop explores various decoration methods to apply to clay from the raw surface to onglaze methods. Attendees are invited to bring along greenware to experiment on with underglaze colours, water etching, tissue transfers, sgraffito through a resist and more. We will look at surface treatments on leather hard clay like carving, sprigging, stamping, inlay, applying slip and impressions with texture. Demonstrations will also be given on glazed pieces with decals and the process of applying lustre explained. 
Many of these techniques are more successful with good planning, and Nicci recommends using a visual art diary as a valuable tool for designing, recording ideas and process and what glaze you will use.

A Materials list will be supplied prior to workshop. You will need 3-4 pieces of both leather hard and bone dry cone 5-6 fine white clay.
Morning and Afternoon tea provided - BYO lunch or lunch to share.

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