Ceramics Coiling with Phaedra Davy

Name: Ceramics Coiling with Phaedra Davy
Start: 2025-09-26T23:30:00+10:00
End: 2025-09-28T05:00:00+10:00
Location: 60 Crane St, Ballina NSW 2478, Australia

Schedule

Fri, 26 Sep, 2025 at 11:30 pm to Sun, 28 Sep, 2025 at 05:00 am

UTC+10:00

Location

60 Crane St, Ballina NSW 2478, Australia | Ballina, NS

Join Northern Rivers ceramicist and arts educator Phaedra Davy in this two-day immersive hand building ceramics workshop where participants will learn the ancient art of hand-coiling. On day 1 students will be guided through the creation of a bottle with clay stopper, and two drinking vessels, and day 2 participants will paint their pieces with white slip and learn how to decorate them using a combination of sgraffito carving techniques and coloured slip painting.
Tools, materials and a stoneware oxidisation firing are included. Fired works will be available for collection within 6 weeks of the completion of the workshop.
Phaedra Davy is a ceramicist and educator living and working in the Northern Rivers. She teaches a range of ceramics disciplines and techniques, both privately as well as for the Diploma of Ceramics at Lismore and Murwillimbah TAFE, and at the Cape Byron Steiner School. A warm, vibrant facilitator, with a background in theatrical circus and product design, Phaedra now dedicates her life to the pursuit of making and teaching ceramics full time.
“I have been exploring a broad range ceramic processes and techniques in my own practice for many years. I threw my first bowl on the wheel 23 years ago and fell in love with clay. I enjoy all the ceramic disciplines, slip casting for its brain teasing challenges, hand building for its boundless possibilities and the potter’s wheel that brings me home to my centre.”
- Phaedra Davy, 2025
Please Bring: Clothes that can get messy, closed-toed shoes, a water bottle, lunch/refreshments, or enjoy the Gallery Café next door.
For more information visit nrcgballina.com.au or phone the Gallery on 02 6681 0530.