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Four-week Wheel-throwing Course

One Off Pots

4.9 (7)

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4 x 2.5 hours

2 to 4 guests

$295 (Afterpay available)

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Overview

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Teacher

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What you'll do

Discover the fun and challenge of throwing clay on a wheel. No experience needed - just patience and reasonable expectations! This 4-week course will give you an overview of throwing clay on the pottery wheel to make small pots. However, this short course is also perfectly suitable for intermediate potters who have done a wheel-throwing course or two and want to practise or refine their skills.

What is different about our course is that we are a very small studio with only four wheels. So the classes are small, intimate, and you will get highly individualised attention from Jacqui. The course will go ahead even if there is only one booking! Tantamount to a private lesson.

What you will learn:

How to prepare clay
How to centre and open your clay on the wheel
Step-by-step throwing of simple vessel forms such as cylinders (the basis for all pots)
Ways to shape your pots
How to finish your work by trimming
How to glaze and prepare work for firing

What you'll get

Use of wheels and tools
Glazes
Up to 2.5 kgs of clay (equivalent of 6 - 8 cup-sized vessels)
Firing of your pots up to 2.5kg of clay. If you want to fire more than 2.5 kgs, we can fire those pots at $20 per kg.

Knowledge required

Suitable for beginners as well as those who have done some basic wheel throwing before and want to develop techniques. Suitable for adults 18 plus.

What to bring

Prepare to get messy!

Small hand towel
Apron
Enthusiasm
Suggest you wear casual / older clothes and closed-in shoes - clay can get really, really messy!
Long nails not advised (sorry!)
No jewellery on hands (they could get lost or broken)
Hair tie

Session repeats

This class series runs over 4 consecutive sessions, at the same time every week.

Location

OoPs - One-off Pottery Studio - 17 Wave Street, Hampton VIC

By train 0n the Sandringham Line to Hampton Station. 25 minutes from the city.

Four-week Wheel-throwing Course location

More about this class

This class is new, and this teacher has 7 reviews for their other experiences - which you can see here.

This class is also covered by ClassBento's money-back guarantee.

Your teacher

One Off Pots

4.9 (7)

Women-owned

Jacqui discovered pottery about eight years ago when corporate life was no longer fulfilling her. She signed up at the local community centre for pottery courses and was hooked. In fact, she became so passionate about it, that she completed numerous courses in hand-building, wheel-throwing, glazing and firing and spent three months doing pottery in a school in Denmark. She recently completed an intensive porcelain and glazing course at La Meridiana Pottery School in Italy.

Jacqui started OoPs (One-off Pottery Studio) in 2019 and has sold her work at several markets like the Rose Street Market, the Brighton Soul Night Market, Le Studio Ceramics market, Mooroduc Station Market and has exhibited at the Beaumaris Art group, the Dinner Plain Art Fair, the Gulgong Clay Festival and the Sol Gallery in Fitzroy. She took over the management of the ceramic studio at Le Studio Art Space in Mordialloc early in 2022, and ran several wheel-throwing and hand-building courses in collaboration with other wonderful ceramic teachers there and at her studio in Hampton. She also teaches at the Beaumaris Art Group.

She loves the unpredictable nature of pottery - each time you open the kiln, it's like a new exciting episode of a sitcom. The alchemy of earth, water, fire and chemicals leads to a myriad possibilities. Not-to-mention that pottery is mesmerising to watch and do. And fun. And messy.