Porcelain Christmas decorations workshop for adults
Date: Thursdays – 28 October and 11 November
Making: 28 October 10.00 – 12.00
Glazing and decorating: 10.00-12.00
Tutor: Bridget Timoney
£85 (cost of materials is included)
Come and join us to make some gorgeous porcelain Christmas decorations to help add a uniquely creative twinkle to your festive home.
Other musicians from the Bridgepoint Ensemble return to perform a recital of Elisabeth Frink’s favourite music during the Frink ‘Man is an Animal’ exhibition.
Elisabeth Frink’s artistic and cultural interest was as broad as it was deep and of all the artforms that fascinated her, music was perhaps the most enduring. Frink would play music while she worked and an archive of records and tapes discovered in her studio display an eclectic taste that spans Bach and Albinoni, to Kodaly and William Walton, via Gershwin and Stephane Grapelli. She loved baroque styles, chamber music, symphonies, opera and jazz.
Elisabeth Frink Sculpture day
Tutor: Finn Bush
The brightness of white earthenware clay fits perfectly with Elizabeth Frink’s magical Snowy Owl pictures. She returned many times to the theme of owls which are among the most beautiful depictions of these noble creatures. Sculpting with an expressive textural style you will be encouraged to create the spirit-like atmosphere of Fink’s owls but also sculpt your ideas of how an owl should look. Should its wings be outspread? Should it be at rest or just taking off? Has it turned to look at you? This is a chance to sculpt using paperclay one of nature’s most enigmatic animals.
Throwing Day
Date: Sunday 31 October
Tutor: Jo Taylor
In this workshop concentrating on making pots for domestic use Jo would like to introduce pottery work to complete beginners or offer an opportunity for more advanced students to expand their existing skills. In this session you will have the chance to throw forms such as bowls, platters, and beakers and immediately apply slip decoration by brushing, banding and trailing whilst still on the wheel.
A talk during our Elisabeth Frink 'Man is an Animal' exhibition. Frink created much public art in her lifetime, a genre dominated by men.
With ongoing discussions over the statues in our cities, we invite a panel to discuss 'Public Sculpture - What's the Point?
Public art adds enormous value to the cultural, aesthetic and economic vitality of a community. It is now a well-accepted principle of urban design that public art contributes to a community's identity, fosters community pride and a sense of belonging, and enhances the quality of life for its residents and visitors. But with more and more public art, who decides and who commissions?
The panel includes Isabel de Vasconsellos (author of Fourth Plinth: How London Created the Smallest Sculpture Park in the World)
MESSY MAKERS SATURDAYS – Clay sessions for children and their adults to come and create together
Make Christmas Tree Decorations
Date: Saturday 6 November
Tutor: Bridget Timoney
Decorative traditions from around the world collide with brightly coloured and infinitely patterned shapes. A wide range of different decorative methods for you to choose from to create clay christmas decorations, light enough to hang from a branch and beautiful enough to charm the eye. Use scaffiito, imprint, miniature sculpture, cutters and collage resist methods to add beauty to clay base shapes.
From potters to potters – Specialist topical courses:
Line blend – glaze technology session
Dates: 7th November and 28th November
Times: 7th November 10am – 4.30pm and 28th November 10am – 12pm
Cost: £155
Tutor: Tim Thornton
Introducing practice – A one day course to help you understand and master the use of different types of line blends in developing glazes.
This is a glaze technology session which will assist your understanding of the benefits of testing glazes and glaze materials via the increased addition of one material into another.
Porcelain Christmas decorations workshop for adults
Date: Thursdays – 28 October and 11 November (two half days)
Making: 28 October 10.00 – 12.00
Glazing and decorating: 11 November 10.00-12.00
Tutor: Bridget Timoney
£85 (cost of materials is included)
Come and join us to make some gorgeous porcelain Christmas decorations to help add a uniquely creative twinkle to your festive home.
MESSY MAKERS SATURDAYS – Clay sessions for children and their adults to come and create together
Family Sculpture Workshop: Fish, Dolphins and other Marine Mammals
Tutor: Finn Bush
A chance to sculpt balanced streamline shapes and explore the unique character and limitless movement of life under the waves. Then bring life to this sculpture using coloured slips to decorate with realism or playful decorative patterns. Finally you sculpture will be clear glazed to bring the aquatic glossy shine to your streamlined sculpture
MESSY MAKERS SATURDAYS – Clay sessions for children and their adults to come and create together
Family Sculpture Workshop: Fish, Dolphins and other Marine Mammals
Tutor: Finn Bush
A chance to sculpt balanced streamline shapes and explore the unique character and limitless movement of life under the waves. Then bring life to this sculpture using coloured slips to decorate with realism or playful decorative patterns. Finally you sculpture will be clear glazed to bring the aquatic glossy shine to your streamlined sculpture
