Production Throwing With Callum Trudgeon and Matilda Halley From Driving Creek Pottery

Members Only

workshop

9am-4pm , Sunday the 30th of March

Price: $170

Enrollment date: Now

Tutors: Callum Trudgeon and Matilda Halley

Callum started pottery in 2014 when he became the first fully trained apprentice at the Leach Pottery in St Ives. He trained and worked there as a production potter for eight years. He spent three months in Bizen, Japan with potter Kazuya Ishida making British style standard ware using the local materials and firing techniques. Callum then spent seven months at Guldagergaard international ceramic research centre, Denmark, on their Young Wood Fire Artist in Residence programme. In December 2022 he moved to the Coromandel to set up a production pottery at Driving Creek.

Matilda traded places with Callum Trudgeon for six months and left Driving Creek Pottery in New Zealand to join the production team at the Leach Pottery in 2023. Matilda worked as a Studio Volunteer, improving her production skills, experience the flow of studio production in a bigger studio and to make some of her own pots in her free time..She apprenticed for German production potter Petra Meyboden in Coromandel, where she developed an interest in wood firing with salt and soda. Matilda has since been based at Barry Brickell’s Driving Creek Railway and Pottery assisting Callum in producing a new Driving Creek Standard Ware range.

About: This production throwing course is designed for potters who want to enhance their speed and accuracy. Through a series of exercises you will learn how to strip back your throwing technique to the bare minimum, learning how to throw pots efficiently. The skills you develop in this course are transferable to all pottery forms, making it a valuable addition to your pottery practice.

Please note:
Please bring food for a shared lunch
Clean up times are within the hours allocated for class time
If a workshop is unable to go ahead on the planned date we will reschedule these events to a later date. Refunds will only be possible if no suitable alternative date can be found

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