This one day class is an Advanced Throwing Demonstration and Workshop - bowls and glaze. This class will run for the full day and is a hands on workshop. Participants will need to have at least a good understanding and experience of how to do basic throwing, please note that this class is not for beginner throwers.

Course content:

• throwing larger sizes
• throwing tricks and tips
• clay shrinkage
• compaction
• managing drying and firing
• managing thickness of bowls in throwing and in trimming
• changes in form during drying and firing
• managing different clay types
• general design
• strategies for getting from design to finished object.
• using the currie grid to understand glaze types - Looking at currie grid tiles that and numerous test tiles, and discussion of clay types.

Michael Tannock Bio:

It was 1994, while completing a degree in English Literature, that I went to a night class in Ceramics. I was instantly hooked - no going back. Fortunately, Otago is home to a ceramics degree course, so the next four years were spent at the Dunedin School of Art, South Island of New Zealand.On graduating, I worked from my garden studio for several years, then took up the position of resident potter at Glenfalloch, a picturesque garden on the Otago Peninsula. In 2005, I spent some amazing months as a studio assistant in the ceramics department at Peters Valley, New Jersey, USA. Now, I work from my home studio in Dunedin. I also return to art school once a week – this time as a teacher.https://www.mtannockceramics.com/