T3 Ceramics -Slip Casting

Course Description

Design your own cup/bowl and make a plaster mould. Learn slip casting to create your vessel in clay and experiment with carving and glazing to make a lovely set. plaster moulds, casting multiples, and developing layered relief surfaces using shellac resist, finishing with glaze. Your tutor: Ana de Sousa Rosa Annemieke Mulders is a ceramic artist whose current passion is to use discarded plaster moulds to make new forms trough deconstruction and reassembly. The discarded vessels are changed by cutting, rearranging or breaking part of its surface. This way she aims to understand the tension between the orderly and the regular on one hand, and the chaotic and the extreme on the other. She seeks to create meaningful sculptural vases and vessels by combining both. For her tableware she develops glazes that remain vibrant after the high firing temperature necessary for durable functional ware. Her aim is to create a surface where the layered glazes interact with the carved surface and start to resemble an abstract painting. Her palette is inspired by the amazing coast and outback Australian landscape. Annemieke regularly exhibits across Australia. Her works were curated as part of the Bunbury Biennale; Manifest at the Australian Ceramics Triennale, Hobart TAS; Fluid State at Gallery Central, Perth WA; and the National Emerging Art Prize in Sydney NSW. What to Bring: Please wear old clothes/apron Mask, gloves, pen and paper. Old towel Journal and pen The cost to each student will be $ 55 and will include: stoneware clay, plaster for making mold, 3 litre slip for casting. Some tools and equipment are supplied. Cost of firing and access to collective glazes included in course fees (excludes - oversized or excessive production)