We will be potting for 24 hours to raise £10,000 for Intoart.

Intoart is a pioneering visual arts organisation committed to equity, visibility and social justice, led by the creative ambition of learning disabled and autistic people as artists and designers. Their full-time studio programme spans art, design and craft and is an alternative art school committed to access to long-term creative practice. We aim to raise £10,000 to support direct costs of a day a week in the studio for a year.

Come and join us on Sunday 12 - 4pm to join in the Clay Relay.

Make a donation to join in - make a small hand built pot with us or just come, donate, and give moral support!

Ceramics Evening Classes. A 9 week course of hand building and throwing for all levels. Small groups on Tuesdays 6.30pm to 9.30pm, £390 including materials and firing Classes are run by Daf Price,an experienced teacher and potters.

Students sign up for all 9 evening classes , we are unable to offer refunds or make up classes for missed sessions.

Please register your interest for future classes on the contact page. Thank you

Abigail Schama presents an exhibition of new ceramic works on the theme of listening and receptivity. These are displayed within her working studio, The Mews Coachworks, a female makers’ space in West London housed in the original studio of sculptor Antanas Brazdys.

These new ceramic works suggest an active hunger seeking the nourishment of speech as well as food: a rim that becomes an open beak, a vessel resembling a listening shell. They have been described by the author Margie Orford as ‘bound together by love and a fractured strength that gives them their fierce and vulnerable beauty’. The process starts at the wheel, then altered, slipped, sometimes bound, drawn or engraved upon before being fired and re-fired.

This event supports the charity Camden Psychotherapy Unit (CPU). With that in mind, the thrust of these works concerns a vessel or body having the capacity to hold and listen. They also raise critical questions of our received ideas about functionality and dysfunctionality. The event includes cocktails and food by chef Rosie Sykes, some of which is cooked in the studio’s pottery kiln.

The talk with Abigail Schama and Rosie Sykes discusses fulfillment and the creative process; making a vessel or a dish of food is not an end in itself but part of an ongoing conversation that is as much about social and emotional connection as it is about the act of creation itself. Abigail and Rosie explore the different ways craft and cooking speak to our states of emptiness and longing, especially in light of the tactile deprivations of COVID-19.

The free exhibition opens on Thursday evening, visitors must register for a ticket. The event on Sunday is a paid-for ticketed talk and lunch, in support of CPU.

Exhibition, booking not necessary - Free
Friday 8 October 2021 @ 12:00 - 16:00
Saturday 9 October 2021 @ 12:00 - 16:00

Talk, booking necessary - £35
Sunday 10 October 2021 @ 12:00 - 16:00

Longhand, stream of consciousness writing, guided by Dr Margie Orford, writer and journalist

Word weaving sessions provoke, clarify, comfort, cajole, prioritise and synchronise the day at hand. They are about anything and everything that crosses your mind, and they are for your eyes only.

Morning pages of word weaving. Do not over-think it, just put anything on the page...and then do more pages tomorrow

Classes run for three days Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday across two weeks.

9am - 9.45am

Week 1 January 12th, 13th 14th

Week 2 January 19th, 20th 21st

£15 per week for three sessions

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