Hand meets digital: our hacks for recording life at the pottery.
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Do we do it? Yes we do!
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Alex has been a studio member since February 2020. She uses a range of wheel and hand techniques: frequently hacking, stacking and tailoring forms into characterful hybrid pots.
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Learn more about the stages of clay. This film is a speedy (but long) introduction to how clay behaves at different stages.
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Slips and underglazes are an accessible way to introduce decoration, texture, and colour to your pottery.
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What’s the difference between a vase and a bottle? All bottles can be vases, but can all vases be bottles? When does a bottle stop being a bottle? Does any of this matter: should the flowers determine what’s what?
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How we improvise with carrots and sticks, and how we’ve used low and high tech construction methods to make tools we then use to make pots, tiles, button prototypes, decorations and large scale slabs.
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Oliver and the alchemist’s shed. Adapting to seasons.
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Mild, medium and hot, hot, hot. We’ve upgraded our heaters to infrared.
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We recently welcomed Milly Recci to our team through the Government’s Kickstart Scheme.
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Trials and tribulations in the world of slip: analogue rudely meets digital on Butterley Street, Leeds.
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We’re making a limited-edition decorative tile for sponsors of the restoration works at Hyde Park Picture House this Winter. These handmade tiles are inspired by the Picture House’s Marmo faience and donations will go towards its repair.
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Biscuits, clashing knitwear, lemon drop Martinis, gyoza, label makers, coffee, more biscuits, hummus, wheelbarrows, studio dogs that refuse to be studio dogs, open day sausages, and teams.
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“Don’t worry about it. Give me an hour and I’ll come out of that bathroom with a tennis ball”… stories from pottery studio life, and the things they inspire.
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Clay news, features and events from Sunken Studio - our regular roundup. Join our newsletter to get this in your inbox.
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Pull Together was a participatory event supported with funding from Leeds Inspired, part of Leeds City Council. We invited residents of Leeds to learn how to pull clay handles. Here’s our practice run with the team.
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It’s workshop time. Discover last minute additions to our Summer calendar, and plan an Autumn of making and glazing. Hurrah… glaze workshops!
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Glaze development has been a slow process. We have lots of new starting points and plan to work with our members to develop the Member’s glaze palette.
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Long ones, short ones, intensive ones, beginner ones, intermediate ones… There are lots of new things to do this summer at Sunken Studio.
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