Clay Exploration with Kjersti Sletteland

Dates Wednesdays, 24 April - 22 May 2024*
*1 week gap 15 May for drying and firing
Time 10am – 1pm

Over four weeks, this course we will take an experimental approach to working with different clays and slips to encourage outcomes like cracks, warping and explosions- things we are often told to avoid when working with ceramics. Practising creative rule breaking we will get unexpected original results that can be manipulated into interesting shapes and textures. When you learn ceramics, you are often told what not to do and what to avoid as the outcome can be cracks, warping and explosions. In this course we will be looking at technically “wrong” ways to work with ceramics. By taking an experimental approach, we will provoke some of these accidents. From accidents and failures, we often get new, original results that again can be manipulated into great shapes and textures.