Throwing Day
Tutor: Sue Kelly
This course led by Sue Kelly is an ideal opportunity to spend the day getting familiar with throwing on the potter’s wheel or improve your existing skills. If you book both days you can throw your pots on Saturday and come to turn and attach handles the following day.
Join 200 voices and a brass band for a carol singing event at the barn in Messums Wiltshire.
This is a free event open to everyone. Just bring your voice and best Christmas wishes and help us raise money for Tisbury Fire Service.
The bar will be open for mulled wine, drinks and homemade snacks made by The Mess Restaurant.
Just Glaze session
Date: Friday 10 December
Times: 10.00 – 13.00 and 14.00 – 17.00
Book a half day session £65 each
Tutor: Bridget Timoney
Bridget Timoney has been a practicing potter for ten years. She studied ceramics at Limerick School of Art and Design. She trained under Gus Mableson at the prestigious Thomastown Skills Course and completed an Adopt a Potter apprenticeship with Julie Ayton. Recently Bridget completed her traineeship as Mirka Golden-Hann’s Visual Arts and Pottery Assistant at Salisbury Arts Centre where she gained an in-depth insight into teaching pottery classes to all ages as well as running a community pottery.
10 December
Day £120, half day £65
Glaze your work from previous courses and use the workshop time for an opportunity to practice your wheel skills.
A technician or tutor will be available for help and advice.
Just Glaze session
Date: Friday 10 December
Tutor: Bridget Timoney
Bridget Timoney has been a practicing potter for ten years. She studied ceramics at Limerick School of Art and Design. She trained under Gus Mableson at the prestigious Thomastown Skills Course and completed an Adopt a Potter apprenticeship with Julie Ayton. Recently Bridget completed her traineeship as Mirka Golden-Hann’s Visual Arts and Pottery Assistant at Salisbury Arts Centre where she gained an in-depth insight into teaching pottery classes to all ages as well as running a community pottery.
Join us for a conversation with Minette Batters, President of the National Farmers’ Union of England and Wales, representing 55,000 farming businesses. In 2018 she became the first woman to be president of the organisation, having been vice-president from 2014 to 2018. She was re-elected in 2020 for a second two-year term as president Minette also runs a 300-acre tenant farm at Downton near Salisbury in Wiltshire.
If you always wanted to have a go at making with porcelain on the potter’s wheel, now is your chance. This is a three part course for intermediate potters who would like to expand their skill set to work with the notoriously temperamental and magical material that is porcelain. Get ready to be enchanted and challenged at the same time!
Can plastic packaging ever be better for the environment than paper? Why don’t we just get rid of packaging altogether?
Why isn’t all packaging recyclable? Is all plastic made from petrochemicals?
The answers to these questions may surprise you.
In this online conversation, photographer Nii Obodai will present his series ‘Big Dreams’ and ‘Paradox of Paradise’.
Messums London presents its first contemporary photography show by artists Nii Obodai and Justin Keene. Through a selection of delicately composed and elusive images, this exhibition encourages us to ponder our relationship with nature and read cultural history through the environment.
Under the tuition of Jo Taylor, in this workshop you will be able to create serving dishes either by slab building or throwing on the potters’ wheel, and decorate them with coloured slips. Slip decoration is one of the most expressive decorating techniques. This workshop will let you go wild and be free using your vessels as canvasses for expressing your creative energy.
