Sanding the notches off lego, blunting fresh scalpels, and stitching the blunted scalpels to the notch-less lego. We love that Nova knew, without question, they were legitimate and important tool making tasks!
Read More
We’re hosting a mass pulling event to promote the transformative power of craft. It’ll be messy, unnerving and very funny. Supported with funding from Leeds Inspired, part of Leeds City Council.
Read More
Pottery making staycations with very special people.
Read More
For a limited time only, we’re going back to our roots. We’re running private throwing sessions from 19 April until 17 May 2021
Read More
Member’s headlines: we’re ready to welcome you back!
Read More
New week long-ish pottery making intensives coming soon…
Read More
An outline of our plans for reopening in Spring 2021.
Read More
Opal x Joanne Crawford present a new collaboration celebrating 9 incredible female owned businesses in Leeds.
Read More
Big, bold and beautiful.
Read More
Introducing studio member and designer maker Victoria and Finch.
Read More
Interested in taking part but don’t know where to start? We host regular open days. Take a look around.
Read More
We have potter’s wheels and we’re not afraid to use them.
Read More
Sunken Studio was setup by Rebecca in September 2016. A lot has happened. Here’s a bit more about Rebecca’s background and motivations.
Read More
How early Hey Clay! projects - including a workshop at Duke Studios and the studio’s first open day - shaped shared making, collaboration, and ways of working during a period of transition.
Read More
How the studio’s earliest moves - from a home basement to temporary space - shaped ways of working, collaboration, and scale.
Read More
Thoughts on decision-making, responsibility, and the slow work of shaping a studio that can adapt over time.
Read More
Looking to historic pots and close observation to inform how new makers develop material sensitivity.
Read More
Working with clay at scale, using constraint and shared conditions to explore collaboration and material behaviour.
Read More
What a temporary studio space made possible - from shared making to flexible ways of working.
Read More
How leaving salaried work and focusing on making shaped the early direction of Sunken Studio.
Read More