Wheel Throwing Course for Beginners and Intermediates

Four session wheel throwing course suitable for all skill levels


One Off Pots
One Off Pots
4.9 (13)

4 x 2 hours Class size 1 to 5 guests    

  $299 (Afterpay available)

Discover the fun and challenge of throwing clay on a wheel. No experience needed - just patience and reasonable expectations!
This four session course will give you an overview of throwing small pots on the wheel, trimming, and glazing. 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 courses is that we are a very small studio with only five 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.
What to bring
  • Prepare to get messy!
  • Towel
  • Apron
  • Enthusiasm
  • Suggest you wear casual/older clothes and closed-in shoes - clay can get really, really messy!
  • Long nails not advised (sorry but we can try and work with it!)
  • 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

5 minute walk from Hampton Station on the Sandringham Line

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One Off Pots
One Off Pots

4.9 (13)
female Women-owned

My name is Jacqui, and I discovered pottery about eight years ago when I signed up for a pottery course at the local community centre. I was hooked from the get-go. In fact, I became so passionate about it, that I have since completed numerous courses in hand-building, wheel-throwing, glazing and firing in Australia, Denmark and Italy.
I started OoPs (One-off Pottery Studio) in 2019 and have since sold hundreds of pieces at several markets like the Rose Street Market, Mansfield Pottery Festival, the Brighton Soul Night Market, Le Studio Ceramics market, and Mooroduc Station Market.
I have also exhibited numerous pieces at the Dinner Plain Art Fair, Beaumaris Art Group, the Gulgong Clay Festival, the Sol Gallery in Fitzroy and the Memo Gallery in Healesville. I currently have numerous pieces exhibiting at Eagles Nest Galley in Aireys Inlet and my "Oceans, Interrupted" Exhbition at The Window, Bayside in Sandringham.
In 2022, I ran the ceramic studio at Le Studio Art Space in Mordialloc. There I discovered my love of teaching wheel-throwing and hand-building in collaboration with other wonderful ceramic teachers. I set up my own studio in Hampton in 2024, where I teach today. I also teach at the Beaumaris Art Group and the Brighton Recreation Centre.
What do I love about pottery? Mostly how I become completely absorbed in watching a piece of mud transform into a vessel and can shut out the world for a few hours. I love the unpredictable nature of pottery - each time I 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 very messy.

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