Slow Clay Centre - Pottery Workshops

Upcoming Workshops

Spring School: UNCONVENTIONAL CLAY

Unconventional Clay - 3 Days of artist demonstration and talks featuring Aaron Scythe, Paul Leathers, and Trudy Golley at Slow Clay Centre Collingwood.

An 3-day program for serious students, carefully designed to supplement practical ceramics studies.

Clay club after school children pottery classes

Clay Club can help you bring your children back down to earth by offering pottery lessons providing a messy, muddy alternative for kids to express themselves in.

The Intensive Weekend class, held once per term, is a great alternative to our Slow Clay wheel classes and are suitable for beginners or anyone who would like to be introduced to our ergonomically sound methods of working on the

This a the perfect 2 hr session introduction to the potter's wheel for complete beginners. Come try your hand!

Touch – Respond with Jane Sawyer

A special workshop with artist Jane Sawyer to learn to throw loosely and identify your signature touch!

A special workshop with artist Prue Venables to learn to throw, cut and construct with porcelain.

A week intensive program carefully designed to supplement practical ceramics studies.

A special workshop with artist and glaze technician extraordinaire, Amelia Black, to learn to create and test colours in glazes!

Thinking Tools For The Journey, 3-day Intensive SPRING SCHOOL

An intensive program for serious students, carefully designed to supplement practical ceramics studies.

The Middle Glazes with Matt Katz

The Middle Glazes is a comprehensive study into Mid-range glazes also known as Cone 6-8. One of the most popular firing temperatures in ceramics, they can be beautiful, enticing, engaging and incredibly frustrating. Join Matt Katz for this wild 5-day ride!

“Simplexity” Guest Artist Workshop with Steve Williams

This one-day workshop with renowned potter/ceramic artist Steve Williams will open your mind to playful experimentation with clay! You will also learn about his unique approach direct from wheel to kiln and hear about his glazing and wood firing techniques.

This presentation was held on 1 May, 2022. Earth : Country, guest artist demonstration & presentation with Naomi Hobson. Cape York artist Naomi Hobson is Slow Clay Centre's artist in residence in April making ceramic work for an important exhibition,

Jann Kesby is one of Australia's most experienced ceramic artists who has fired her kilns with wood for over 30 years. Her style of wood-firing continues in the centuries-long Japanese tradition of high fired stoneware in kilns where ash deposits

Please note: this workshop was held on 3 October 2021. We will leave this page up and if you wish to attend a future date please email us to go on the waiting list. This online Zoom workshop is

Developing Glazes & Colours with Greg Daly

Learn the science of glazing in simple, uncomplicated ways. Learn about glaze materials, how they contribute to the glaze recipe and how to alter the recipe to suit particular temperatures or atmospheres within the kiln

Workshop with Janet DeBoos at Slow Clay Centre

Learn a rich variety of surface techniques from Janet DeBoos, an internationally renowned artist and educator.

Join us for this specialist demo with mould maker and slip caster extraordinaire Somchai Charoen! You will come away equipped and inspired by his knowledge and innovative techniques!

Studio Practice Program (SPP): 5-day WINTER SCHOOL

A week intensive program carefully designed to supplement practical ceramics studies.

HEIDE X SLOW CLAY: King Houndekpinkou artist talk & demo

Heide X Sloiw Clay Centre presents French artist King Houndekpinkou for a rare artist talk and demo

A one-off course designed to enable you to make your own porcelain objects based on your own designs.

Join us for this rare talk and demo with US legend Sergei Isupov. You will come away inspired by the rich discussion and Sergei's knowledge and innovative techniques

Guest Artist Workshop with Richard Parker

Join us for this rare demo workshop with New Zealand legend of ceramics, Richard Parker. You will come away inspired by the rich discussion and Parker's knowledge and innovative techniques

In this one-day workshop you will experience two different approaches to painting on the ceramic canvas with Fiona Hiscock and Niharika Hukku.

Our Christmas gift to you are our daily free* workshops in conjunction with our annual COLLECTIVE x SLOW CLAY show! We have invited some like-minded colleagues to present some pretty amazing one-off workshops for you from Porcelain Mobiles to Knife

Guest Artist Workshop: !Ay Karatsu! with Michael Martino (Japan)

Slow Clay Centre offers two opportunities to connect with visiting international artist Michael Martino, from Japan.

Andrew Halford Workshop at Slow Clay Centre

Slow Clay Centre is incredibly excited to offer this one-day workshop with experienced potter and ceramist Andrew Halford.

Want some cool fun for your children these holidays? Claymation: Living Clay at Slow Clay Centre in Collingwood is the place to come! This holiday course is run over three consecutive mornings, 11-13 July 2017, 9.30am - 12.30pm. Children receive

This event is now over. We will leave it here as a record of past events and will possibly offer another similar event in the future. Forum on International Artist in Residency opportunities Join us for this informative forum panel,

Developing Glazes and Colours with Greg Daly

Join the award-winning ceramic artist Sandy Lockwood for this one day demonstration workshop to be inspired by the designs and processes she has created throughout her career.

Join the award-winning ceramic artist Neil Hoffmann for this one day demonstration workshop to be inspired by the designs and processes Neil has created throughout his career.

Slow Clay Centre the Duke of Dirt David Ray Workshop

We are thrilled to have one of Australia's most loved and respected ceramic artists, David Ray (AKA "The Duke of Dirt") for this one-day demonstration and hands-on workshop!

Join acclaimed Melbourne ceramic artist Irianna Kanellopoulou for this demonstration workshop. Irianna will reveal the step-by-step the process of making a two-piece plaster mould that can be used for slip-casting multiple ceramic objects. She will also demonstrate slip-casting from a

Workshops

Upcoming Workshops

Spring School: UNCONVENTIONAL CLAY

School Holiday Pottery Classes

Weekend Intensive Wheel Classes

Wheel Taster Class

Archived Past Workshops (so you can see what we've done!)

Touch – Respond with Jane Sawyer

Throw, Cut & Paste

Studio Practice Program (SPP)

Finding Your Palette

Thinking Tools For The Journey, 3-day Intensive SPRING SCHOOL

The Middle Glazes with Matt Katz

“Simplexity” Guest Artist Workshop with Steve Williams

Earth: Country with Naomi Hobson

A Day with Jann Kesby

Touch-Respond with Jane Sawyer

Developing Glazes & Colours with Greg Daly

Surfacing with Janet DeBoos

Somchai Charoen: Specialist Workshop

Studio Practice Program (SPP): 5-day WINTER SCHOOL

HEIDE X SLOW CLAY: King Houndekpinkou artist talk & demo

Porcelain Small Objects

Sergei Isupov: Guest Artist Talk & Demo

Guest Artist Workshop with Richard Parker

Hiscock & Hukku: The Brush & The Clay

COLLECTIVE x SLOW CLAY free workshops!

Guest Artist Workshop: !Ay Karatsu! with Michael Martino (Japan)

Guest Artist Workshop: Andrew Halford

Claymation: Living Clay

Forum

Developing Glazes and Colours with Greg Daly

Fluid Motion with Sandy Lockwood

Matter over Mind with Neil Hoffmann

Guest Artist Workshop: David Ray The Duke of Dirt

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