2014
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
Already promising to be an outstanding year... the calendar in preview....
MARCH: Naked Raku
| APRIL:
Terra Sigilatta | MAY: Altered Forms | AUGUST : Porcelain Jewelry
SEPTEMBER:
Wood firing | OCTOBER: Beyond Throwing | DECEMBER: Figurative Sculpture
MARCH 9 - 22, 2014 NAKED
with Marcello Massoni, Michela Foppiani & Hillary Kane
A Raku workshop with Gaya Ceramic's finest in-house instructors
Seductively shimmering surfaces, burnished to a soft sheen as satin as skin... Naked Raku. Technically more complex in possibilities than meets the eye, this two week focus study will endeavor to unveil the mysteries, and thoroughly explore the length and breadth of Naked Raku. From finding suitable forms hand-built or wheel thrown, to burnishing, applying resistant slip, patterning surfaces in the simplest or the most intricate detail, smoking, and polishing-- each participant will become a budding expert in every nuance of practical knowledge, enough to commence an exploration of a lifetime. Gaya Ceramic's vast archive of Naked Raku production samples will enhance and inspire everyone's palette of possibilities...
Open to all levels of experience
Tuition: $1900
*Tuition includes: general studio materials, firings, transport during workshop hours, excursions around Bali, Welcome dinner, and lunches at the studio.
**NOT INCLUDE accommodation
APRIL 13-26, 2014
Local Earth: Terrasigillata and Tropical Natural Ash glazes
with Walter Auer
In this two-week immersion, ceramic sculptor, Walter Auer, will lead participants in an exploration of Bali's natural resources in relationship to clay. Emphasis will be on experimentation with local materials to develop various terra sigillatas, glaze possibilities, and textured surfaces, culminating in the dramatic experience of a mid-range tropical wood-firing in Gaya's unique updraft, double-walled "Bottle" kiln. The clay experience will of course be complemented by its conjunction with select memorable moments of cultural and gastronomic inspiration.
Tutor Walter Auer studied ceramics at the State Institute of Art, Faenza, Italy, graduating in 1987 with an Advanced Diploma in Ceramics. He learned traditional wheel forming in Avanos, Turkey and then studied in Miyama, Japan with Chin Jukan. Walter then set up a ceramic training centre in Eritrea, before settling in Sydney in 1997. Since 2002, he has been teaching ceramics at Northern Beaches and in various other TAFE Colleges. His sculptural ceramics have been exhibited in Sculpture by the Sea 2005, Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize 2005, Hyperclay: Contemporary Ceramics (still touring ) Enucleo: Contemporary Clay and in many national and international solo and group shows. He comes extremely highly recommended as an excellent workshop leader.
MAY 4-17, 2014 ALTERED FORM
with Deborah Schwartzkopf
Create expressive, functional forms with clay. Deborah Schwartzkopf will share construction techniques combining altered, wheel thrown and molded, slab built parts. Both those fluent in wheel throwing and hand building will benefit from blending these processes in this hands-on intensive.
Sketching, image presentations, and forays into the Balinese landscape will help us cultivate design ideas. Simple pattern and mold making will augment our exploration into non-round shapes. Join this playful excursion and explore innovative ways of making functional pots with clay.
AUGUST 17 - 23, 2014 PORCELAIN JEWELRY
with Olivia Monti
Fuel your imagination and create unique ceramic jewelery in a setting of unsurpassed tropical beauty, amid artisans of world-renowned skill. Porcelain sculpture and jewelry artist, Olivia Monti Arduini, will guide participants in experimenting with a myriad of different techniques. From use of molds, pigments, paper-clay, slipcasting, inlay, neriage, burnishing, glazes, Olivia will demonstrate infusing clay with one's personal touch to create a wearable work of art.
Participants will be ushered through all the steps of making porcelain jewelry component parts. The conclusion of the workshop will be in the assemblage: stringing, wiring, or otherwise combining pieces to create finished jewels.
And then, of course, the fashion show…
Open to any level of experience.
Tuition: US$ 950
*Tuition includes: general studio materials, firings, transport during workshop hours, excursions around Bali, Welcome dinner, and lunches at the studio.
APRIL 13-26, 2014
Local Earth: Terrasigillata and Tropical Natural Ash glazes
with Walter Auer
In this two-week immersion, ceramic sculptor, Walter Auer, will lead participants in an exploration of Bali's natural resources in relationship to clay. Emphasis will be on experimentation with local materials to develop various terra sigillatas, glaze possibilities, and textured surfaces, culminating in the dramatic experience of a mid-range tropical wood-firing in Gaya's unique updraft, double-walled "Bottle" kiln. The clay experience will of course be complemented by its conjunction with select memorable moments of cultural and gastronomic inspiration.
Tutor Walter Auer studied ceramics at the State Institute of Art, Faenza, Italy, graduating in 1987 with an Advanced Diploma in Ceramics. He learned traditional wheel forming in Avanos, Turkey and then studied in Miyama, Japan with Chin Jukan. Walter then set up a ceramic training centre in Eritrea, before settling in Sydney in 1997. Since 2002, he has been teaching ceramics at Northern Beaches and in various other TAFE Colleges. His sculptural ceramics have been exhibited in Sculpture by the Sea 2005, Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize 2005, Hyperclay: Contemporary Ceramics (still touring ) Enucleo: Contemporary Clay and in many national and international solo and group shows. He comes extremely highly recommended as an excellent workshop leader.
Open to all levels of experience
Tuition: $1900
Tuition: $1900
*Tuition includes: general studio materials, firings, transport during workshop hours, excursions around Bali, Welcome dinner, and lunches at the studio.
**NOT INCLUDE accommodation
MAY 4-17, 2014 ALTERED FORM
with Deborah Schwartzkopf
Create expressive, functional forms with clay. Deborah Schwartzkopf will share construction techniques combining altered, wheel thrown and molded, slab built parts. Both those fluent in wheel throwing and hand building will benefit from blending these processes in this hands-on intensive.
Sketching, image presentations, and forays into the Balinese landscape will help us cultivate design ideas. Simple pattern and mold making will augment our exploration into non-round shapes. Join this playful excursion and explore innovative ways of making functional pots with clay.
Open to all levels of experience
Tuition: $1900
Tuition: $1900
*Tuition includes: general studio materials, firings, transport during workshop hours, excursions around Bali, Welcome dinner, and lunches at the studio.
**NOT INCLUDE accommodation
AUGUST 17 - 23, 2014 PORCELAIN JEWELRY
with Olivia Monti
Fuel your imagination and create unique ceramic jewelery in a setting of unsurpassed tropical beauty, amid artisans of world-renowned skill. Porcelain sculpture and jewelry artist, Olivia Monti Arduini, will guide participants in experimenting with a myriad of different techniques. From use of molds, pigments, paper-clay, slipcasting, inlay, neriage, burnishing, glazes, Olivia will demonstrate infusing clay with one's personal touch to create a wearable work of art.
Participants will be ushered through all the steps of making porcelain jewelry component parts. The conclusion of the workshop will be in the assemblage: stringing, wiring, or otherwise combining pieces to create finished jewels.
And then, of course, the fashion show…
Open to any level of experience.
Tuition: US$ 950
*Tuition includes: general studio materials, firings, transport during workshop hours, excursions around Bali, Welcome dinner, and lunches at the studio.
**NOT included accommodation.
***Jewelry tool kit additional (separate) fee
SEPTEMBER 20 - OCTOBER 4, 2014 ANAGAMA WOOD FIRING
with Barbara Campbell-Allen & Hillary Kane
***Jewelry tool kit additional (separate) fee
SEPTEMBER 20 - OCTOBER 4, 2014 ANAGAMA WOOD FIRING
with Barbara Campbell-Allen & Hillary Kane
Delighting in the element of serendipity and spontaneous beauty, this workshop will explore the kiss of flame and the natural glaze effects of atmospheric wood-firing in Gaya CAC’s anagama (Japanese-style wood kiln) with visiting wood-fire specialist, Barbara Campbell-Allen (Australia) and in-house wood-firer, Hillary Kane.
Participants will experiment with the variables of clay bodies and flashing slips, surface texture and vessel shape as design factors influencing the subtle and dramatic effects of a natural ash surface.
An intensive two-weeks: work will be produced in the studio, loaded, fired for 2 ½ days of stoking, and then unloaded after cooling for the work of the flame to be revealed and displayed. Evenings will be punctuated with slides and films on wood-fire.
Open to all levels of experience
Tuition: $1900
Tuition: $1900
*Tuition includes: general studio materials, firings, transport during workshop hours, excursions around Bali, Welcome dinner, and lunches at the studio.
**NOT INCLUDE accommodation
OCTOBER 5 -18, 2014 BEYOND THROWING
with Janet DeBoos
Join renowned ceramicist and educator, Janet DeBoos, in this two week wheel-based pottery workshop that will examine the potential of using the wheel as a basic tool to provide form for manipulation and decoration. The ‘centered’ character of wheel formed pottery will be highlighted, and subverted through cutting/joining and deforming at different stages of drying to make hybrid forms that are neither completely hand built, nor completely thrown.
Decoration will be through use of underglaze colors and slips, and will require participants to explore the imagery and iconography of their own places and cultures as well as local material gathered during the workshop. There will be discussion of pattern development and how judicious use of decoration can enhance formal aspects.
The outcome will be pottery, with the potential for use, but in arriving at that complex point, function may need to be relegated to the ‘back burner’ during formal experimentation. This allows for a more rigorous analysis of form. The restoration of function will then require examination of what constitutes function, and how more sculptural forms can be made to function without loss of their distinct characteristics. The general thrust of investigations will be towards a kind of hybridity, arrived at by exploring ‘the other’. Each day will commence with a talk or a demonstration, followed by participants working with supervision, and each day will end with a critique of that which was produced during the day and an outline of the next day’s projects.
NOVEMBER 30 - DECEMBER 13, 2014
THE FIGURE AS A VESSEL
with Ryan Mitchell
with Janet DeBoos
Join renowned ceramicist and educator, Janet DeBoos, in this two week wheel-based pottery workshop that will examine the potential of using the wheel as a basic tool to provide form for manipulation and decoration. The ‘centered’ character of wheel formed pottery will be highlighted, and subverted through cutting/joining and deforming at different stages of drying to make hybrid forms that are neither completely hand built, nor completely thrown.
Decoration will be through use of underglaze colors and slips, and will require participants to explore the imagery and iconography of their own places and cultures as well as local material gathered during the workshop. There will be discussion of pattern development and how judicious use of decoration can enhance formal aspects.
The outcome will be pottery, with the potential for use, but in arriving at that complex point, function may need to be relegated to the ‘back burner’ during formal experimentation. This allows for a more rigorous analysis of form. The restoration of function will then require examination of what constitutes function, and how more sculptural forms can be made to function without loss of their distinct characteristics. The general thrust of investigations will be towards a kind of hybridity, arrived at by exploring ‘the other’. Each day will commence with a talk or a demonstration, followed by participants working with supervision, and each day will end with a critique of that which was produced during the day and an outline of the next day’s projects.
Open to all levels of experience
Tuition: $1900
Tuition: $1900
*Tuition includes: general studio materials, firings, transport during workshop hours, excursions around Bali, Welcome dinner, and lunches at the studio.
**NOT INCLUDE accommodation
NOVEMBER 30 - DECEMBER 13, 2014
THE FIGURE AS A VESSEL
with Ryan Mitchell
Students will explore personal narratives and concepts through
sculptural figuration . Referencing memories, life experiences and applying
inspiration by the culture and surroundings of Bali, participants will be
supported to achieve their vision using the principles of sculpture . A
wide range of techniques and approaches used by the diverse array of figurative
artists will be introduced to expand participants ability and potential in
clay.Ryan will demonstrate a variety of hand-building methods including coil,
slab, solid construction and press molded techniques. Material information will
be provided to increase technical knowledge of ceramic construction before,
during and after the firing process. The workshop will explore the various aesthetic
and conceptual approaches to expression that clay offers to construct sculpture
at both large and intimate scaled work. Information on a variety of clay, glaze
and surface treatments will covered.
Open to all levels of experience
Tuition: $1900
Tuition: $1900
*Tuition includes: general studio materials, firings, transport during workshop hours, excursions around Bali, Welcome dinner, and lunches at the studio.
**NOT INCLUDE accommodation
For more information, contact gayacac@gayaceramic.com
