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POTTERY

Sunshine Coast Art Group has an active pottery group with over 100 members with a wide range of experience and skills.  Our pottery studio is well equipped.  Our facilities include hand building workspaces, throwing wheels, extruders and a slab roller.  We have gas, electric and raku kilns and a fire pit for specialist firing.  There are a variety of glazes for member use and space to store clay and work in progress.

We are open for regular untutored/self-help sessions.  Members may attend any of these sessions.  Members using the facilities at these times must have experience working in a studio setting and be aware of safety issues.  Untutored sessions are not suitable for beginners.

All enquiries to pottery@sunshinecoastartgroup.com.au

Weekly session times:

  Mon 10.30 - 1 pm

   Tues, Wed, Fri - 9am to 1pm
   Wed evening - 4:30pm to 8:30pm
   Saturday - 9am to 12noon

There is an attendance fee of $2 per session.









BEGINNERS CLASSES AND MEMBERSHIP

Sunshine Coast Art Group runs beginners courses in hand-building and wheel throwing several times a year.  Please check for upcoming workshops here.

As access to the pottery studio is unsupervised, pottery membership is not open for people who have no experience in pottery.  To be eligible for membership, you must have either undertaken classes in pottery or be able to show examples of your work.



POTTERY MEMBERSHIP

Studio membership is available to experienced potters.  Members have access to all studio equipment.  Members are expected to supply their own tools and clay.  

We run regular courses and workshops for members.  

All members are required to contribute to the running of the studio as we are a volunteer run organisation.  Help is needed to operate the kilns, prepare glazes, recycle clay, keep the studio clean and functional and assist in events and exhibitions.  This keeps our costs low.

Members are also expected to be part of our community and create at the studio on a regular basis. 

There is currently a waiting list for membership.  Please come to the studio during opening hours if you would like to express interest in joining us. 




UPCOMING WORKSHOPS

Registration is open for the following workshops:

Intermediate throwing with Marc Sauvage - See details



 

Upcoming pottery activities

    • 18 Apr 2025
    • 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM


    • 19 Apr 2025
    • 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
    • Pottery studio
    Register

    Untutored session for members

    • 21 Apr 2025
    • 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM


    • 22 Apr 2025
    • 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
    • Pottery studio
    Register

    Untutored sessions for members

    • 22 Apr 2025
    • 24 Jun 2025
    • 10 sessions
    • Pottery studio
    • 0
    Join waitlist

    This 10-week course represents an opportunity for students who have completed the Beginning Throwing course (or equivalent) to progress and consolidate their skills into making a variety of more complex forms with growing confidence. Ideally, target students are able to centre clay and create simple forms on the wheel. 


    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. Some of the projects covered include high,

    medium and low-profile bowls, “sets” of cups, platters, lidded containers, and tall forms. At the conclusion of the course, students make and assemble a teapot or can focus on another project of their choice.


    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. Whilst no time has been allocated for glazing, students can access the studio glazes and firing facilities in their owntime in order to complete the work.


    • 23 Apr 2025
    • 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
    • Pottery studio
    Register


    • 23 Apr 2025
    • 9:30 AM
    • Pottery studio
    • 19
    Register

    Come along and join others to help decorate our soup bowls. 

    Deb D. will be available to demonstrate and help. You should have received an email with more information if you need it. All equipment and materials provided. 


    Additional session:
    Wednesday 23 April 5.30pm - 7 pm with Sladana and Jane

    • 23 Apr 2025
    • 4:30 PM - 8:30 PM
    • Pottery studio
    Register


    • 23 Apr 2025
    • 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
    • Pottery studio
    • 20
    Register

    Come along and join others to help decorate our soup bowls. 

    Deb D. will be available to demonstrate and help. You should have received an email with more information if you need it. All equipment and materials provided. 




    • 25 Apr 2025
    • 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
    • Pottery studio
    Register


    • 26 Apr 2025
    • 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
    • Pottery studio
    Register

    Untutored session for members

    • 28 Apr 2025
    • 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM
    • Pottery studio
    Register


    • 28 Apr 2025
    • 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
    • Pottery studio
    Register


    • 29 Apr 2025
    • 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
    • Pottery studio
    Register

    Untutored sessions for members

    • 30 Apr 2025
    • 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
    • Pottery studio
    Register


    • 30 Apr 2025
    • 4:30 PM - 8:30 PM
    • Pottery studio
    Register


    • 2 May 2025
    • 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
    • Pottery studio
    Register


    • 3 May 2025
    • 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
    • Pottery studio
    Register

    Untutored session for members

    • 5 May 2025
    • 10:30 AM - 1:00 PM
    • Pottery studio
    Register


    • 5 May 2025
    • 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
    • Pottery studio
    Register


    • 12 May 2025
    • 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
    • Pottery studio
    Register


    • 23 May 2025
    • 2:00 PM - 7:00 PM
    Register

    The next raku firing will be on 23 May.

    Anything for special bisque (900 degrees) firing needs to be in by Sat 10 May and placed on the Raku shelf.

    Raku glazing will be on Monday 19 - Wednesday 21 May only.

    No glazing on the day of firing.

    • 12 Jul 2025
    • 8:30 AM - 2:00 PM
    • 1 William Parker Place


    • 15 Jul 2025
    • 16 Sep 2025
    • 10 sessions
    • Pottery Studio
    • 12




Address:
1 William Parker Place Buderim 4556

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