With only only 5 participants per workshop this will be an intimate, hands on exploration of decorative surface techniques. The workshops will begin with an introduction to the beautiful, translucent porcelain and then we’ll plunge straight into creating. We will discuss design, pattern, surface texture and imagery in order for you to create two porcelain bowls with your own design. What we are aiming for is a reflection of your own unique personality with all it’s complexity, in your final design! But the day can’t be all about work and there will be plenty of demonstrations and a delicious, vegetarian lunch.
I’m running the workshops from 9.30 until 3 so they are convenient for those with school children.
Work will be fired and available to pick up or be sent to your home.
So, bring a friend and come along for a lovely day in the country and enjoy the creative chaos of the studio while making your very own translucent porcelain bowls. Shannon Garson Porcelain – Winter WorkshopsTuesday June 21st , Tuesday June 28th and Tuesday July 5th My studio in Maleny 9.30-3.00 $130 per person Find out more here.
A two-day ceramics workshop takes place June 10 and 11 at STC’s Pecan Campus Art Building Ceramics Lab, Room 113. Art talks will take place Saturday, July 11 from 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the same location. All this is free of charge. Participants will see clay demonstrations and art talks by nationally recognized and distinguished ceramicists Ovidio Giberga and Paul Northway. Both artists’ work references and expresses personal ideas of identity, time and place. Also an exhibition of student work from regional campuses will be on display for a month.
rcboisjoli is a small design factory in Toronto. Focused on function and form, rcboisjoli fabricates handsome handmade domestic objects. Every stage of production is created in shop by hand, from plaster forms to silk screened decals.
Inspired by the low tech, the old and by the everyday object we strive to create dynamic and modern wares.
The above mentioned article was posted on Ceramic Arts Daily this week and I reckon worth a read. After doing my taxes this year and doing some simple math I figured out a rough hourly rate for myself, but Mea Rhee goes into far more detail about a potters earnings. It’s good to measure these things once in a while to help direct your business and figure out what’s worth your time and what is draining you physically and financially.
Bids are now open!!!! … until Sunday 5 June @ 8pm.
SHIRO OTANI, 2010, wood-fired sake jug from Shigaraki clay, wheel-thrown with flying ash glaze
Shiro Otani generously donated the jug at Woodfire TAS 2011
to raise money for the Tasmanian Ceramics Society. Thank you Shiro!
Estimated value: $600 – $1000
SHIRO OTANI, 2010, wood-fired sake jug from Shigaraki clay, wheel-thrown with flying ash glaze; h.16cm, w.9cm; Photos: Robin Roberts
On Sunday May 1, 2011 at Reedy Marsh Pottery near Deloraine, Shiro Otani made pots using local clay as part of The Reedy Marsh Woodfire Challenge. During this extravaganza of clay, kiln building, wood-firing, and kiln-centric food preparation, Shiro pots were fired in a unique kiln built by members of his team. Shiro’s final gesture, as the evening reached its conclusion, was to donate a piece of his work, made at his pottery in Shigaraki, Japan, for the benefit of the Tasmanian Ceramics Association.
About the potter: Shiro Otani of Shigaraki Japan has won many major awards for his work. He has a reputation for extracting the optimum from his materials and kilns. As a young potter, Shiro made the most of unpopular zones within communal kilns, executing flashed and lightly ashed work of great subtlety and beauty. Read more about his life and work here:http://www.artistpotters.com/artist_potters/otani/index.htm
The auction has started and will finish at 8pm on Sunday 5 June 2011. Starting Price $300. Bids are now open!!!!
Postage of the item is to be covered by the purchaser, in addition to their final price; allow $35 within Australia or $55 for overseas.
THE AUCTION IS NOW LIVE on TACA’s Facebook page, ready for you to pop in your bid/s:
1. You need to have a Facebook account to make a bid on Shiro Otani’s pot. It is totally free to join Facebook. You need an email address and a password.
