Workshop: Hand Building Pottery Class – Hybrid sculptures inspired by John Hoyland

Name: Workshop: Hand Building Pottery Class – Hybrid sculptures inspired by John Hoyland
Start: 2025-04-12T10:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-04-12T16:30:00+01:00
Location: The Millennium Gallery

Schedule

Sat Apr 12 2025 at 10:30 am to 04:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

The Millennium Gallery | Sheffield, EN

Join local ceramicist Andrew Walker to make your own sculpture inspired by Hoyland’s sculptural works in this comprehensive full-day workshop.

In this pottery class you'll be guided through the process of forming clay to hand build a sculpture inspired by a walk-round of the John Hoyland These Mad Hybrids and Strange Presence exhibitions. Once getting to grips with the clay, the shape and form is up to you to design.
The session will start with some time spent in the exhibitions taking notes, sketches or photos to find your sources of inspiration, followed by exploring various hand building techniques that will allow you to create your own 'mad hybrid' sculpture. There will be a break for lunch (lunch is not provided), and the afternoon will be your time to finalise the design and to decorate your sculpture using bright coloured slips.
The final pieces will be finished in a transparent gloss glaze and fired in a kiln off-site, ready to collect from the Millennium Gallery approximately three weeks later.
Andrew Walker is an experienced ceramic artist, creating hand built contemporary pottery. His work consists of hand built ceramic stoneware vessels, predominately starting out as rolled slabs of specialist clay. Andrew has his own studio in Works 57 Sheffield where he teaches small groups various hand building techniques.