Hand building with Clay Workshop
We spenttwo afternoon sessions hand-building and glazing Morandi inspired vessels together. During that time, we covered 3 key techniques to create vessels by hand, as well as the basic understanding of the process of firing clay, and vitrifying it with glaze.
Each session was roughly 3.5-4 hours with a tea break in between.
The class was taken through guided steps and given individual support and assistance on how to work with the shape and form that they were molding by hand, which is always individual and unique to each person.
- Session 1 : hand-building vessels using templates, weld slabs and pinching methods. Starting with an introduction to wedging, we worked through how slabs can take on shapes.
- Session 2 : on site at the studios where our pieces were fired. We covered the basics of glazing and then had access to 42 different types of glazes to vitrify our green ware.
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2 sessions of approx. 4 hours each
What was included:
- Use of tools
- Keane No 7 Stoneware Clay
- all firing (both bisque and then glaze)
- half day drop-in fee at Ceramic studios that both fired and allowed us access to 42 different types of glazes
- half day use of a Community space to hand build object
- use of custom-designed templates
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Fionnuala Heidenreich
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BA Fine Arts
AA Diploma Architecture RIBA Part II + III UK
Studio Fio
ABN 75 676 202 008
NSW Australia
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