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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.

See the calendar below for what's happening in the pottery studio.

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 9.00am - 1.00 pm

   Tues, Wed, Fri - 9.00am to 1.00pm
   Wed evening - 4:30pm to 8:30pm
   Saturday - 9.00am to 12noon

There is an attendance fee of $2 per session.









LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES FOR NON-MEMBERS


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


POTTERY MEMBERSHIP

Pottery members are required to undertake an induction upon joining.  The induction session will ensure that new members are aware of health and safety requirements and how to care for our equipment. 

Members have access to the studio during opening hours.  Members may use studio equipment but are expected to supply their own tools, clay and underglaze. 

All equipment must be properly cleaned after use.  

We run regular courses and workshops for members and non-members (when there are spaces available).

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.

Upcoming pottery activities

    • 2 Feb 2026
    • 6 Apr 2026
    • 10 sessions
    • SCArt Pottery Studio
    • 2
    Registration is closed

    Course objectives:

    During this course the trainer will:

    • By way of lectures, discussions and demonstrations, introduce both theoretical (chemical and physical requirements of a glaze) and practical aspects of glaze making (weighing, slaking, mixing, sieving and applying to test tiles).
    • Provide recipes for student use as well as directing to both online and text sources.
    • Outline the role of colourants, opacifiers & additives in glazes.
    • Supervise and assist with the process of discovering new ways to create and mix glazes.
    • Fire student tests on a weekly basis and discuss subsequent glaze results with students.
    • Run chosen tasks in small groups to expedite results.
    • Emphasise safety practices.

    By the end of this course, the student will:

    • Confidently be able to create any glaze from a recipe.
    • Have tested and created between 15-20 different glazes from recipes, whilst also discovering new glazes from mixing experiments.
    • Complete a colour run on a base glaze, creating 6 new colourant variations.
    • Use the triaxial blend method, and working in a group of 3, mix 3 different glazes to create 21 new ones.
    • Learn how to turn any glaze recipe into a brush-on glaze.
    • Understand the 3 basic components of all ceramic glazes and be able to identify materials as Glass formers, Fluxes and Stiffeners.
    • Have completed tests for over/under glazes as well as materials melt tests.
    • Work with group shared glazes, both brush-on and dipping/pouring, to finish a number of small experimental pieces they have made.
    • Be able to observe safe practices while mixing glazes, both at SCArt and in their home studio.
    • 7 Feb 2026
    • 30 May 2026
    • 9 sessions
    • Pottery Studio
    • 0
    Join waitlist

    HAND BUILDING FOR BEGINNERS

    Join us for our extensive beginner's course in hand building with clay. Over 8 Saturday afternoons, you will learn a range of pottery techniques including making pinch pots, building with coils, slab construction and moulds.

    Once you have mastered building we will cover various decoration, design and texture techniques using underglazes, dipping and brush on glazes.

    The course cost is $335 for non-members and $295 for members.  The  cost covers eight 3 hour workshops, membership while the course is in progress and a bag of clay.

    For additional enquiries email course leader Deb here.



    • 8 Feb 2026
    • 29 Mar 2026
    • 8 sessions
    • SCART Pottery Studio
    • 0
    Registration is closed

    Availability:   10 spaces - For members/non-members.

    Cost:  $300 for members and $350 non-members.  

    When:  Every Sunday morning. Starts 8th February until 29 March 2026. 

    Weeks 1-6, 9.30-1.30 and weeks 7-8 9.30-12.30. Studio opens 15 minutes before class starts.

    Recommended for: For all beginners to wheel throwing. No experience is necessary.

    Training objectives:

    • Identify safety aspects of working with clay and around a pottery studio.
    • Learn and practice the methods of:
      • Weighing and wedging clay in preparation for its use.
      • Applying the clay to the wheel.
      • Controlling the pottery wheel speed and positioning of the potters arms to facilitate throwing.
      • Centering the clay on the wheel.
      • Opening up the clay.
      • Pulling up the clay walls.
      • Shaping and refining the form with ribs, and other pottery tools.
      • Removing the form correctly from the wheel to conserve its shape.
      • Making a handle.
      • Making a lidded form (this will depend on student’s level of progression through the other stages).
      • Recognising the clay stage of ‘leatherhard’ ready for trimming the form.
      • Trimming techniques to finish off the form including making a ‘base foot’.
      • Recognising the importance of identifying your pottery form ready for firing.

    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.


    • 20 Mar 2026
    • 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
    • Pottery studio
    Register

    Untutored sessions for members

    • 21 Mar 2026
    • 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
    • Pottery studio
    Register

    Untutored session for members

    • 21 Mar 2026
    • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
    • Pottery studio
    Register

    Pottery members are invited to join the committee to hear the plans for the pottery studio over the coming year.

    There is a proposal to reorganise the space to improve the flow of work within the studio and the increase efficiency and safety.

    Some new procedures may be introduced at a later stage.  The committee would like to get members feedback on the plans before proceeding.  

    • 23 Mar 2026
    • 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
    • Pottery studio
    Register


    • 23 Mar 2026
    • 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
    • Pottery studio
    Register


    • 24 Mar 2026
    • 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
    • Pottery studio
    Register

    Untutored sessions for members

    • 25 Mar 2026
    • 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
    • Pottery studio
    Register


    • 25 Mar 2026
    • 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM
    • Pottery studio
    Register


    • 25 Mar 2026
    • 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
    • Pottery studio
    Register


    • 27 Mar 2026
    • 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
    • Pottery studio
    Register

    Untutored sessions for members

    • 28 Mar 2026
    • 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
    • Pottery studio
    Register

    Untutored session for members

    • 28 Mar 2026
    • 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
    • Studios
    Register

    New member information session

    This information session is for people interested in joining the Sunshine Coast Art Group pottery and art groups.  

    We have new member intakes 3 to 4 times a year.  At the session we will give potential new members details about how we operate and everything you need to know to become a member.

    New members to the pottery will also have to undertake a half day induction.


    • 30 Mar 2026
    • 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
    • Pottery studio
    Register


    • 30 Mar 2026
    • 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
    • Pottery studio
    Register


    • 31 Mar 2026
    • 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
    • Pottery studio
    Register

    Untutored sessions for members

    • 1 Apr 2026
    • 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
    • Pottery studio
    Register


    • 1 Apr 2026
    • 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM
    • Pottery studio
    Register


    • 1 Apr 2026
    • 4:30 PM - 8:30 PM
    • Pottery studio
    Register


    • 3 Apr 2026


    • 6 Apr 2026


    • 7 Apr 2026
    • 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
    • Pottery studio
    Register

    Untutored sessions for members

    • 8 Apr 2026
    • 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
    • Pottery studio
    Register


    • 8 Apr 2026
    • 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM
    • Pottery studio
    Register


    • 8 Apr 2026
    • 4:30 PM - 8:30 PM
    • Pottery studio
    Register


    • 10 Apr 2026
    • 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
    • Pottery studio
    Register

    Untutored sessions for members

    • 11 Apr 2026
    • 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
    • Pottery studio
    Register

    Untutored session for members

    • 13 Apr 2026
    • 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
    • Pottery studio
    Register


    • 13 Apr 2026
    • 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
    • Pottery studio
    Register


    • 14 Apr 2026
    • 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
    • Pottery studio
    Register

    Untutored sessions for members

    • 15 Apr 2026
    • 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
    • Pottery studio
    Register


    • 15 Apr 2026
    • 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM
    • Pottery studio
    Register


    • 15 Apr 2026
    • 4:30 PM - 8:30 PM
    • Pottery studio
    Register


    • 17 Apr 2026
    • 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
    • Pottery studio
    Register

    Untutored sessions for members

    • 18 Apr 2026
    • 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
    • Pottery studio
    Register

    Untutored session for members

    • 19 Apr 2026
    • 6 Jun 2026
    • 8 sessions
    • Pottery Studio
    • 2
    Register

    This 8 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. 



    • 20 Apr 2026
    • 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
    • Pottery studio
    Register


    • 20 Apr 2026
    • 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
    • Pottery studio
    Register


    • 20 Apr 2026
    • 22 Jun 2026
    • 10 sessions
    • Pottery Studio
    Register

    Course objectives:

    During this course the trainer will:

    • By way of lectures, discussions and demonstrations, introduce both theoretical (chemical and physical requirements of a glaze) and practical aspects of glaze making (weighing, slaking, mixing, sieving and applying to test tiles).
    • Provide recipes for student use as well as directing to both online and text sources.
    • Outline the role of colourants, opacifiers & additives in glazes.
    • Supervise and assist with the process of discovering new ways to create and mix glazes.
    • Fire student tests on a weekly basis and discuss subsequent glaze results with students.
    • Run chosen tasks in small groups to expedite results.
    • Emphasise safety practices.

    By the end of this course, the student will:

    • Confidently be able to create any glaze from a recipe.
    • Have tested and created between 15-20 different glazes from recipes, whilst also discovering new glazes from mixing experiments.
    • Complete a colour run on a base glaze, creating 6 new colourant variations.
    • Use the triaxial blend method, and working in a group of 3, mix 3 different glazes to create 21 new ones.
    • Learn how to turn any glaze recipe into a brush-on glaze.
    • Understand the 3 basic components of all ceramic glazes and be able to identify materials as Glass formers, Fluxes and Stiffeners.
    • Have completed tests for over/under glazes as well as materials melt tests.
    • Work with group shared glazes, both brush-on and dipping/pouring, to finish a number of small experimental pieces they have made.
    • Be able to observe safe practices while mixing glazes, both at SCArt and in their home studio.


    • 21 Apr 2026
    • 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
    • Pottery studio
    Register

    Untutored sessions for members

    • 21 Apr 2026
    • 23 Jun 2026
    • 10 sessions
    • SCArt Pottery Studio
    • 6
    Register
     The primary focus of this course is to reinforce and refine the skills already developed by students who have completed the Beginner and Intermediate Wheel Throwing Courses, whilst providing them with the opportunity to practice, challenge and extend their abilities into new areas of interest.

    In the first half of the course, students will be iencouraged to try a number of extension activities and projects:

    ·        Creating oval forms from thrown shapes
    ·        Blending multiple coloured clays to explore neriage techniques in a variety of forms
    ·        Joining multiple thrown shapes to create larger forms
    ·        Throwing and altering closed forms such as spheres and        donuts
    ·        Throwing with larger weights

    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.


      • 22 Apr 2026
      • 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
      • Pottery studio
      Register


      • 22 Apr 2026
      • 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM
      • Pottery studio
      Register


      • 22 Apr 2026
      • 4:30 PM - 8:30 PM
      • Pottery studio
      Register


      • 24 Apr 2026
      • 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
      • Pottery studio
      Register

      Untutored sessions for members

      • 25 Apr 2026
      • 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
      • Pottery studio
      Register

      Untutored session for members

      • 25 Apr 2026
      • 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
      • Pottery studio
      Register

      Learn, practice, share workshops with different one-off topics. Taught by experienced studio members 

      • 27 Apr 2026
      • 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
      • Pottery studio
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      • 27 Apr 2026
      • 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
      • Pottery studio
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      • 28 Apr 2026
      • 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
      • Pottery studio
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      Untutored sessions for members

      • 29 Apr 2026
      • 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
      • Pottery studio
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      • 29 Apr 2026
      • 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM
      • Pottery studio
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      • 29 Apr 2026
      • 4:30 PM - 8:30 PM
      • Pottery studio
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      • 1 May 2026
      • 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
      • Pottery studio
      Register

      Untutored sessions for members

      • 1 May 2026
      • 26 Jun 2026
      • 9 sessions
      • Pottery Studio
      • 10
      Register



      • 2 May 2026
      • 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM
      • Pottery studio
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      Untutored session for members

      • 4 May 2026
      • 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
      • Pottery studio
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      • 4 May 2026
      • 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
      • Pottery studio
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      Soup & Soul 60's theme

      • 5 May 2026
      • 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
      • Pottery studio
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      Untutored sessions for members

      • 8 May 2026
      • 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
      • Pottery studio
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      Untutored sessions for members

      • 11 May 2026
      • 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
      • Pottery studio
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      • 11 May 2026
      • 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
      • Pottery studio
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      Soup & Soul 60's theme

      • 12 May 2026
      • 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
      • Pottery studio
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      Untutored sessions for members

      • 18 May 2026
      • 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
      • Pottery studio
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      • 18 May 2026
      • 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
      • Pottery studio
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      Raku firing animals

      • 19 May 2026
      • 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
      • Pottery studio
      Register

      Untutored sessions for members

      • 23 May 2026
      • 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
      • Studios
      • 24
      Register

      New member information session

      This information session is for people interested in joining the Sunshine Coast Art Group pottery and art groups.  

      We have new member intakes 3 to 4 times a year.  At the session we will give potential new members details about how we operate and everything you need to know to become a member.

      New members to the pottery will also have to undertake a half day induction.


      • 25 May 2026
      • 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
      • Pottery studio
      Register


      • 25 May 2026
      • 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
      • Pottery studio
      Register

      Raku firing animals

      • 26 May 2026
      • 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
      • Pottery studio
      Register

      Untutored sessions for members

      • 26 Sep 2026
      • 27 Sep 2026
      • 2 sessions
      • Pottery Studio
      Register



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