Our Teen courses are designed for high school students to stretch their visual art practice, develop skills, and explore techniques in a professional studio environment. While many of our young students come for fun, some students use the class to build a portfolio of work or for guidance when entering their first exhibition!
Enrolments are now open for Term 1 courses 2024. Running from 1 February – 27 March with 8-week courses on offer.
Our Teen courses are designed for high school students to stretch their visual art practice, develop skills, and explore techniques in a professional studio environment. While many of our young students come for fun, some students use the class to build a portfolio of work or for guidance when entering their first exhibition!
We are currently in Term 4. Late enrolments are welcome, where you can join a class that has already started at a reduced cost (the discount is applied automatically at check out).
Our next Term program is Term 1. Key dates for next term are below:
Priority Enrolment: 11 Dec (current students have early access to re-enrol)
Early Bird Enrolment: opens 12 Dec (classes are open to everyone)
Program dates: 1 feb – 27 March 2024
Terms
Term 1 2024: 1 February – 27 March Term 2 2024: 6 May – 1 July (*no classes Kings Birthday holiday Monday 10 June, make up class is Monday 1 July) Term 3 2024: 29 July – 22 September Term 4 2024: 21 October – 15 December
Note that we offer a Priority Enrolment Period for current students to reenrol in their term class one week before we open Earlybird Enrolments to new students.
Public holidays
Easter weekend: 29 March-1 April Anzac Day: 25 April Kings Birthday: Monday 10 June October Long Weekend: Monday 7 October Sign up to our mailing list to be notified when enrolments are open.
Create a beautiful and unique pedestal bowl and learn professional tips and tricks for working with clay and texture from designer and ceramicist Rina Bernabei. This is a unique opportunity to learn how hand-building techniques to make a pedestal bowl. Rina Bernabei’s work encapsulates her years of practice as a product designer and explores relationships between handmade craft practices, and digital technologies and manufacture. Her ceramic practice reflects her research of...
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$300Limited
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NEW | Terracotta Pedestal Bowls with Rina Bernabei | Two-Day Workshop
This class will encourage creative freedom, uniqueness and quirky design. Guided by ceramic artist and teacher Isis Star, students will be encouraged to express themselves, experiment and most importantly embrace the joy and therapeutic nature of working with clay. This term class is ideal for kids looking to explore and develop their artistic voice through ceramic sculpture and hand building. Over 8 weeks each term, students will learn fundamental techniques used by ceramic...
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$400Limited
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Ceramics | Creation Club with Isis Star | ages 7+
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<p>This class will encourage creative freedom, uniqueness and quirky design. Guided by ceramic artist and teacher Isis Star, students will be
This course teaches you the classical approach to painting whether you use oil or acrylic paints. Throughout the course you will be guided through a series of informative exercises designed to develop your painting skills. You can also work on your own projects under the mentorship of Jackson. You are encouraged to go at your own pace and to enjoy learning in a relaxed studio environment. Jackson has a Master of Cultural Materials Conservation, and his teaching is informed by his...
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$625Limited
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$562.50
Classical Painting | Oils or Acrylics with Jackson Davies
<p>This course teaches you the classical approach to painting whether you use oil or acrylic paints. Throughout the course you will be guided through a series of informative exercises designed to
Enrol in this class before 8 April to receive your earlybird discount. See More>. Fee excludes materials. Pleae note the later start time of 11am for this course.
This hand-building and sculpture class is ideal for teens looking for a tranquil, creative space to learn fundamental techniques to make and decorate clay surfaces, with a focus on surface decoration. New students will learn basic hand-building techniques like coiling, pinch pots, and slab work building up to more complex sculptural techniques as their skills and abilities develop. Experienced students will continue to develop and refine their skills with assisted instructions that...
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$400Limited
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Hand-Building Ceramics with Tanya Bechara | Teens 13 years and over
Enrol in this class before 8 April to receive your earlybird discount. See More> Price *includes* materials and firing | Enrol online using your Creative Kids Voucher.
In this class, Jayanto will guide you to make your own Sampuru or lunchbox inspired by your culture and the foods that evoke memories. Be inspired by the textures, shapes, colours and designs of a lunch box (real or imaginary) that could have been packed by yourself, your parent or friend, and create a life-size food clay sculpture. Explore the materiality of clay and have fun experimenting in this workshop for all ages and levels of experience. What to expect In this workshop,...
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$80Limited
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Ceramics | Food and Nostalgia Family Workshop with Jayanto Tan
This is a special Mother's Day Workshop. Enrol 3 or more people in the same family and receive a 10% discount. Children must be at least 5 years old to participate.
Looking for an activity the whole family will love? Why not turn your family's pet into a beautiful sculpture that whistles? In this family workshop, Janet will take you through the steps to create a small hand-held size animal sculpture that makes a whistle sound when you blow through the built-in mouthpiece. You can choose to make the family dog, cat or bird so bring a photo for inspiration. Students will learn to create a beautiful small animal or bird sculpture that sings! ...
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$80Limited
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Family Workshop | Whistling Creatures | Ceramics with Janet Selby
<p>Looking for an activity the whole family will love? Why not turn your family's pet into a beautiful sculpture that whistles?</p>
<p>In this family workshop, Janet will take you through the steps to
Join us for a one-day painting workshop that combines the versatile medium of acrylic paint with the captivating world of mixed media. During this workshop, you can expect to delve into various aspects of acrylic painting and mixed media techniques. Mellissa will demonstrate a range of processes, equipping you with valuable skills and knowledge to enhance your creative expression. What to expect Students will learn: simplifying shapes while maintaining the vibrancy and boldness of...
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$220Limited
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Acrylic Painting | Acrylics and Collage | Mellissa Read-Devine
Join well-known ceramicist Ilona Bruckard to make a beautiful nature-inspired ceramic wall piece in this unique hand-building class. Ilona’s ceramics practice centres around organic forms inspired by nature, the Australian landscape — particularly the ocean. In this two-part workshop she will inspire and teach you how to create your own hand-crafted ceramic sculpture. No experience necessary! With her expertise, Ilona will help you plan and realise your ideas. What to expect...
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Join the incredible artist and ceramicist Niharika Hukku to learn to paint onto bisque-fired and clay surfaces. Your work will be fired to make beautiful food safe ceramics. No experience necessary! Niharika is known for her exquisite illustrative designs painted onto ceramics. From flowers and fish, to birds and botanicals - her works gives a new reality to hand built and decorated ceramics. Visit Niharika's Instagram for inspiration. What to expect This is a two-part...
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Learn exciting glazing techniques to create beautifully finished ceramics. This class is an introduction to glazing and learn how to glaze your work using different glazing techniques such as bubbling, dipping, pouring or dripping. What to expect A complete pot or two. After the glazing class, we will fire the pots for you to collect in one to two weeks. Once the pots are glazed fired, your pieces will be food safe, dishwasher and microwave safe. We will supply the glazes,...
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