Sunshine Coast Art Group runs a number of events every year. Join us for vibrant markets and exhibitions. Our annual Soup + Soul event in July is a well-established community favourite.
Thursday life drawing in the art studio and is an untutored event
Sessions are every 2 weeks
Please arrive at 9.30am for a 10.00am start
Cost per session:
Members: $20
Non-members: $30
Please pay with cash to the group leader on the day.
Chairs and easels provided please bring your own art materials and equipment
Saturday life drawing in the art studio and is untutored
Held on the 2nd and 4th Saturday of each month
This 10 week course is recommended for potters that have undertaken an introduction wheel throwing course and have 6-12 months’ wheel throwing experience. Students must already be able to centre clay and create simple forms on the wheel.
The course represents an opportunity for students to progress and consolidate their skills to produce a variety of more complex forms with growing confidence.
As a “project-based” skill-development course, it focuses on learning and refining skills such as working with larger amounts of clay, throwing taller, shaping/bellying and collaring-in, repetitive throwing, throwing and turning feet, faceting & carving, handles: pulling, hand-built and extruded, shaping rims and spouts, as well as creating assemblages from thrown forms.
Projects covered include high, medium and low-profile bowls, “sets” of cups, chip’n dip platters, one-piece lidded containers, and tall necked bottle forms.
At the conclusion of the course, students throw and assemble a teapot or can focus on another project of their choice.
Most sessions will commence with weighing out and kneading of clay, followed by a demonstration of the lesson’s targeted skill/s and projects.
Students will then work at their own wheel, practising the skills and using the time to complete as much of the project as they can with teacher supervision and assistance.
Thrown forms will be taken home by the student so they can manage appropriate drying of the work for processing/turning the following week.
Whilst most projects can be completed in course time, it is expected that students will spend some extra time (either at home or the SCArt studio) refining, practising or finishing projects.
Simple Molds, taught by Marc Sauvage, runs over 10 weeks and is mainly aimed at Beginning to Intermediate clayworkers. As the name suggests, the course takes an uncomplicated approach to the making of molds using both found and sourced materials such as timber, foam, cardboard, plastic and plaster, and those completing the course will have completed a variety of drape, slump, hump, press and casting molds. A range of decorating techniques appropriate for the molds created are also explored, both by demo and participation, including textures (created and found), coloured slips and clays, paper transfer & stencils, as well as coloured glazes. The course finale is an introduction to slip-casting with participants completing a simple one-piece cup/tumbler/cylindrical form, then casting from the mold using slip made by themselves using their own dried clay body.
A reasonable level of fitness is required to manage bags of clay and buckets of plaster. The ability to throw basic shapes on the wheel is an advantage, as simple thrown forms can be used to make molds, but it is not a requirement.
By the end of this course students should be able to:
The Intermediate Glazes course has been developed for students who have successfully completed the Introduction to Glazes and would like to extend their learning and experience. By way of some chemistry theory, practical tests & experimentation, participants will develop new knowledge & understanding of the UMF (Unity Molecular Formula) and the primary roles that fluxes as well as Alumina/Silica ratios play in the development of ceramic glazes. Some of the other topics covered include:
Participants will require access to a home computer, laptop or tablet, along with Internet access both at home and during some lessons at SCArt (can connect to Sunshine Coast free WiFi at SCArt). A more complete list of requirements will be forwarded upon enrolment.
This is an informal self-managed group for members interested in practising portrait painting. All mediums are welcome.
Members can either work on their own project or practice their skills with a volunteer sitter.
Table and standing easels are available. Please bring your own materials.
Self guided sewing group
An art class hosted by Madeline Herbert.
As we prepare for the upcoming 2026/27 committee year, we’re encouraging members to nominate for positions. If you have the interest or feel you could offer your skills, we’d be delighted to hear from you.
Our group thrives when members step forward, and even small contributions make a big difference.
Sunshine Coast Art Group Annual General Meeting will be held in the Art Studio at 2pm on Sunday 30 August.
Members can download documents here.
Notice of AGM
AGM Election information
Nomination Form
Participants will be introduced to a range of Handbuilding Techniques.
A new technique will be covered each week.
Each technique will be demonstrated and students will have the opportunity to learn the technique, in class, with guidance from the instructor.
Week 1. Pinch + Texture
Week 2. Slab + Sgraffito
Week 3. Coil+ Surface
Week 4. Functional ware + Underglaze
Week 5. Wall decor
Week 6. Glazing + Finishing
In the first half of the course, following previous lesson formats, students will be initially encouraged to try a number of extension activities and projects:
During the first few weeks, students will have time to discuss, with the tutor, the proposed direction of their future ceramic skills and interests, to develop, with assistance, a potential weekly proposal for the second half of the course.
The tutor will then work with students at this time, both individually and with the group, helping them to achieve their goals whilst challenging them to extend their throwing and design skills. A variety of potential surface finishing skills and techniques will be considered in discussion for the final work.
Plaster Mouldmaking and Slip Casting runs over 10 weeks and is mainly aimed at Intermediate to Experienced clayworkers, covering mouldmaking and casting in greater depth than “Simple Moulds”. Initially, this course covers similar ground as the previous one, exploring a variety of drape and hump moulds as well as some of the same decorating techniques using coloured slips, clays and textures. Following this, it advances on to one-piece and 2-piece moulds, addressing the various types and use of cottles, accurate plaster-mixing ratios, mould release agents, keying surfaces for correct alignment, undercuts in found forms, and using a variety of media to create the master form. This part of the course is intensive and physical, mixing larger plaster amounts, requiring significant attention to fine detail and is therefore recommended for participants with reasonable stamina, fitness and patience. The last 2 weeks of the course is allocated for participants to create a more complex form, perhaps requiring more than 2 parts, and producing a form of their own design or choice with assistance from the tutor.
The registration price of this course includes one bag of clay and one bag of plaster per student.
Recommended for:For all beginners to wheel throwing. No experience is necessary.
Training objectives:
It is expected that each student should be able to make at least one of: a cylinder shaped mug, a plate, a bowl and a lidded bowl by the end of this course.
Included in the workshop cost is one best piece from each category which will be bisque fired by the studio, then glazed in class by the student, before having its final glaze firing by the studio. If students would like additional pieces fired, normal firing costs will be incurred at SCart, or outside firing services can sourced by the student.
Contact us:
info@sunshinecoastartgroup.com.au
Address:1 William Parker Place Buderim 4556