1 Full Day Schools Take Over: Form & Function

Example workshop timings:

·        10-10.45: Welcome & Introduction to the Leach Pottery through talk and handling collection.

·        10.45-11: Break

·        11-12.30: Hand-building: Teabowl & Kurinuki

·        12.30-1pm: Lunch Break

·        1pm – 2pm:  Wheel Taster & Research Gathering

3-4pm: Surface Decoration & Tiles

Fired Outcomes: Tea Bowl or Kurinuki and four Decorative Tiles per student

£960 for groups between 18 to 32 students

Including firing and postage costs

For groups smaller than 18 the price of the workshop is the same.

Details of the course:

Welcome

Through a talk and handling collection, participants discover the story of how the Leach Pottery revitalised the tradition of handmade pottery and the ethos and approach of the potters at the pottery across the years.

Tea Bowl

Taking inspiration from the pots made by the Leach Pottery, participants will make their own hand-built tea bowls, yunomis, and learn about the journey clay makes from ground to kiln.

Kurinuki

Consider the forms of drinking vessels, from foot to lip and make a Kurinuki tea bowl. Kurinuki is a traditional Japanese hand-building technique where a vessel is created by carving away from a solid block of clay. Through cutting the shape into the clay raw and sculptural marks of the carving process are visible.

Throwing Taster

Participants will experience throwing on a potter’s wheel and, taking inspiration from the ceramics made by the Leach Pottery, will make their own hand-built tea bowls.

Research & Sketching

Participants will use Historic Resources, books, catalogues and magazines to gather imagery of the Leach Pottery’s ceramics across the last 100 years and sketch to inform their surface decoration designs.

Surface Decoration

Taking inspiration from the decorative processes used by the Leach Pottery, participants will make a series of test tiles, experiencing skills including: slip decoration, wax resist decoration, ceramic stencils and slip mono-print before making a decorative tile which combines these skills. Participants will gain an understanding of what slips and oxides are, how they are made and how to use them.

Production Studio Visit

Depending on the workflow of the production studio across the group’s visit, there will be a tour of the Leach Pottery