Pottery and ceramics
Hand building large scale sculptural ceramics with Claire Ireland
Ref: SLW10362
Suitable for all
£457About this course
An exciting opportunity to work with clay on a large scale. Explore a range of hand building techniques and learn how to manipulate clay using formers and moulds, building different types of coils and slabs.Course Description
Learn a sculptural approach to hand-building techniques, incorporating your ideas and developing your skills as you go. You will create a series of large hand-built structures that can feature a range of different methods of making. You will learn how to manipulate clay in various ways, using formers, moulds and extruded shapes, and building with different types of coils, slabs and fragments of clay.
You will also have the opportunity to experiment with different textures, incorporating embossed and printed decoration and embedding other materials into the clay surface. Oxides and body stains can then be used to enhance the surface of your finished forms. This will give you the option to fire the pieces once, directly to stoneware if you wish. You will need to work to the dimensions of the kilns available, but also look at the options of how to make work in components or sections to achieve larger pieces and tackle the solutions to joining the pieces post-firing.
By the end of the course, you will have a repertoire of different approaches at your fingertips so that you can develop and build large forms with confidence.
Timetable
Arrival Day - this is the first date listed above
Courses start early evening. Residential students to arrive from 4pm, non-residential students to arrive by 6.45pm.
6.45pm: Welcome, followed by dinner (included).
8 - 9pm: First teaching session, attendance is essential.
Daily timetable
Classes 9.15 - 5pm, lunch is included.
From 6.30pm: Dinner (included for residential students).
Evening working - students may have access to workshops, but only with their tutor's permission and provided any health and safety guidelines are observed.
Last day
Classes 9.15am - 3pm, lunch is included.
Residential students are to vacate their rooms by 10am please.
(This timetable is for courses of more than one day in length. The tutor may make slight variations)
Course Materials
Included
- The cost of clay/glazing materials and firing costs of work made – large work in size and quantity may be charged extra.
What students need to bring
- Bring along ideas and images of forms and structures that inspire you, this can include artists who work in very different mediums – painters, architects and sculptors for example. Collect textures and found objects, which can be manmade or natural. These can be used to create stamps and directly emboss the clay surface.
- If you plan to take your unfired work away with you, bring plenty of boxes and packaging/bubble wrap to ensure they are protected for the journey home.
- Please bring along your sketchbook and camera to document your progress and record your experiments.
- Apron
- Pottery tools if you own them
Available to buy
- Available from shop:
- Notebooks and sketchbooks
- Available from tutor:
- An assortment of textures and materials to experiment with and incorporate into the clay. Images and reference of different approaches by different makers. Additional moulds and formers to use when constructing work. Printed sheets and information of all the processes covered.
Tutors
Accommodation
Residential option available. Find out accommodation costs and how to book here.
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