Pottery classes - Sydney

Learn to make beautiful and unique ceramics in our relaxed Sydney pottery classes, near you, with our talented and passionate teachers. Pottery is a great way to indulge your creativity. A block of clay can become a teapot, a vase, a bowl for your pets, and so much more - let your imagination find a real physical form. Get creative with a ceramic painting class, make something cute, something wacky, or just switch off and let your hands decide with a clay hand building class. Pottery can be a meditative experience - you can fall into a trance as you move with the rhythm of the pottery wheel, and as you + more

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Fun Pottery classes / courses in Sydney

Whether you're in the lower north shore, the eastern suburbs, the Sutherland Shire, or somewhere in between, we have a pottery workshop near you. Pottery may be one of the oldest crafts in existence, but there’s never been a more important time to take pottery classes and help improve our well being. Art classes for adults in Sydney are growing in popularity as a great form of stress release for full-time workers and students alike. You’ll find some of the best pottery teachers in Sydney at some of the best pottery studios in Sydney. And even if you’re not feeling stressed, they’re just fun things to do on the weekend!

Join our ceramic classes and you'll learn the basics like pinching, wheel throwing, glazing and firing, or even how to make your own clay sculpture. There are even ceramic painting and glazing classes if you want to paint your own pottery or have some fun and try ceramic painting for kids. You'll be given one on one guidance to build your skills, your confidence, and of course your personal handmade creations (yours to keep or to gift).

Our pottery classes are perfect for beginners, though our experienced teachers are also able to help you if you already know the basics and are ready to move onto more advanced learning. Hand building clay classes also make great options for team building activities for the office as they’ll get you and your colleagues away from your desk and working with your hands in a different, more creative way.

Come ready to experiment with the equipment that is used by professional artists, including proper wheels and kilns. Join as part of a larger group, or go for a smaller and more intimate experience if you’re looking for fun date night ideas in Sydney.

Health benefits of pottery

If you’re looking for a relaxing and mindful craft to test out as a new hobby, pottery classes should be at the top of your list. Kneading clay using hand building techniques, or physically shaping ceramic bowls and vases with a pottery wheel activates your brain, stimulates your muscles and allows you to tune in to your emotional state. If you work with clay regularly it can have a myriad of benefits like increased focus and improved concentration, as well as that creative kick you'll get when you pull your handmade objects out of the kiln.

Pottery classes Sydney

Custom classes

Want to learn or experience something specific? You can easily contact our teachers and arrange a custom workshop at your preferred time and to suit your skill level.

If you’re looking for a unique and memorable event these workshops are perfect things to do with friends on the weekend, for aged care groups, team building exercises, indoor things to do, and kids weekend activities. We've got a range of teachers who cater specifically to larger events, and we can customise classes to meet your needs. Get in touch today and we'll put something together for you.

What we offer

Hand-picked professional pottery teachers
Support of the local Sydney pottery scene
Locations: Sydney CBD, Marrickville, St Peters, Artarmon
Great gift ideas
Affordable
Convenient

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Some recent reviews for our Pottery classes

Erica Hopewell

Introduction to Figurative Sculpting

An enjoyable experience. Irena provides great direction and has a good eye, providing corrective advice on the run to keep the work on track.

Catherine Lee

Introduction to Pottery Wheel Class

A great intro to wheel throwing pottery. So encouraging and one to one individualised instruction with great pointers to achieve the steps needed to make a pot ( who knew there was so many!) You get to make beautiful pieces that you can proudly say you did yourself Loved the class, brilliant value for money

Anonymized Customer

Beginner's Kintsugi Workshop

We had so much fun doing something different and crafty. Perfect 9th anniversary present. Jun was a great teacher, knowledgeable and very chatty with lengthy discussion on Japanese food and travel. Would highly recommend.

Rachel Smiles

Miniature Succulent Garden with Polymer Clay

Absolutely brilliant class! From the perfectly packaged supplies to Blair's wonderful demonstration on how to create these gorgeous clay succulents, it was brilliant from start to finish. I especially enjoyed that not only did you learn how to make the project, but you also are left with enough supplies to make your own in your own time.

Pottery workshop review by Rachel Smiles

Louise Beazley

Beginner's Kintsugi Workshop

Noriko-san was a lovely teacher. She explained and helped us throughout. Great pre-class communication too. Everything is provided and the facilities are perfectly set up. Highly recommend

Peta

Beginner's Kintsugi Workshop

We really enjoyed this class - it was fun and interesting and perfectly designed for a beginner to complete their project within the two hour time slot. Our instructor was great, they had lots of covid-safe procedures in place, and the Japanese tea and snacks were a lovely bonus!

Johnson

Beginner's Kintsugi Workshop

A very enjoyable and relaxing class. Not too difficult even for complete beginners. Highly recommended.

Rhonda Fraser

Hand Building Pottery Workshop

A great class! Teacher, Andrea, was fabulous, explaining each step to our group of newbies. She listened to what we each had in mind and guided us to achieve it.

Pottery workshop review by Rhonda Fraser

Sujeev Vijeyakumaar

Beginner's Kintsugi Workshop

Really great and good covid procedures so we always felt comfortable. Our teacher explained everything really well and you can tell they've done this heaps as the workshop was really well timed.

Pottery workshop review by Sujeev Vijeyakumaar

Jordan Paterson

Kintsugi Accessory Workshop for Beginners

Hitomi was a fantastic teacher. I am so happy with my creations. I had 1:1 teaching for an awesome price and was able to bring home 3 pieces and also a new skill. I feel prepared to do this at home now.

Alison Thomas

Porcelain Hand Building Workshop

What a great class. Fantastic instruction and good materials. I made 4 pieces-can’t wait to see how they look once fired!

Briana Borg

Hand Building Pottery Workshop

Absolutely LOVED this class! We had a beautiful morning outside in the sun creating with clay. Andrea was a great teacher and made the experience so lovely and relaxed. Would absolutely recommend this Open Objects Workshop to everyone! I also purchased a take- home clay kit so I can do one of Andreas online workshops; I can’t wait!

Genevieve Martin

Mindful Art Kintsugi at Home

What a wonderful class, Yoko is a fantastic teacher, so clear and detailed in her instructions, which makes it so easy to learn. The class materials arrived in plenty of time and were all packaged beautifully with instructions to explain what each was. I'm really looking forward to dusting off my piece in 5 days and seeing the final product!

Lauren Cannon

Beginner's Kintsugi Workshop

Noriko was a wonderful teacher. Lovely to talk to and taught us so much about Kintsugi and Japanese history and culture. I had the best time sharing this experience with my sister and am so happy to have my beautiful Japanese plate to remember it by!

Emm Kettle

Mindful Art Kintsugi at Home

The class was very interesting with history and background of the art being told which was lovely. The techniques were well explained -a really pleasant experience. I certainly recommend this class.

Ulrike Cao

Mindful Art Kintsugi at Home

I thoroughly enjoyed this class. Yoko is a skilled and knowledgeable teacher. She explained and demonstrated the method and checked my work via the webcam. She also explained the history and old and contemporary materials. The class was well-paced and it was very satisfying to see the work take shape. The kit contained all the tools and materials needed, and sufficient supplies for additional projects. + more

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