Our week-on-week short 4 or 8 week courses allow students to immerse themselves in a range of media, learn new skills and become part of our art community. With classes available for beginners, intermediate and advanced students in a range of subjects.
Mid-course enrolments are welcome in many of our courses.
Workshops
For those interested in a one-off session, try our Weekend Workshops which run year-round on Saturdays and Sundays.
Special Offer: Any adult student enrolled in a short course receives a 10% discount on any weekend workshop in the same term, click below for more information:
Our week-on-week courses allow students to immerse themselves in a range of media, learn new skills and become part of our art community. Our classes are available at beginner, intermediate and advanced levels allowing students to follow through a course of study.
Term 2 commences: 6 May for most classes.
Priority Earlybird Enrolment: 5-14 March (current students have early access to re-enrol)
Early Bird Enrolment: 15 March – 8 April (enrolments are open to everyone)
Beginners: Beginner courses build confidence and skills, exploring the fundamentals and theory of art, including drawing, colour and composition across various media. Students are nurtured and encouraged to find their voice.
Intermediate (some experience): More experienced students can build on their skills by focusing on a particular medium in-depth or finessing a style or technique.
Advanced (Masterclass): For students who are confident and experienced and are striving to explore new or traditional techniques.
Learn to make functional and decorative ceramics with Tanya Bechara, an award-winning ceramicist known for her whimsical creations featuring Australian native fauna. Whether your taste leans decorative or crisp and clean, Tanya's 20+ years of experience can guide your creative vision and practice in a relaxed, friendly atmosphere. Students will be introduced to clay hand building fundamentals: coiling, pinching, slab building and sculpture. Using these techniques, students will...
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Hand-building Ceramics for Beginners and Beyond with Tanya Bechara
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.
In this fun hand-building class you will create and decorate a totem based around a theme of interest to you. Perhaps botanical, magical or even abstract. No experience necessary! With her expertise, Lisa will help you plan and realise your ideas. Each participant will make a 60-80cm high ceramic totem for the house or garden. This is a great series of three workshop sessions introducing basic hand-building and glazing techniques, as well as composition and design. Bring along...
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Ceramic Totems: Fun Forms and Cascading Colours | Three Part Workshop | Lisa Hölzl
Join artist and ceramicist Carol Hudson in this unique hand-building class. You will create a sculpture or functional vessel inspired by marine environments. No experience necessary! What to expect: This is a two-part workshop held over two consecutive days. Your tutor, Carol Hudson, will help make your experience productive, rewarding and enjoyable. Day 1 : 11am – 2.30pm (3 hrs + ½ hr for lunch) Morning session research, drawing and planning of work Afternoon session...
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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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In this beginner’s class, you will learn the basic Kurinuki carving technique and get to make one to two pieces using a single block of clay and carving tools. Kurinuki simply means “to hollow” in Japanese. Using a solid block of clay, you will learn how to hollow, carve and make a vessel in a slow, meditative and spontaneous way and get to produce a very unique style vessel that can never be repeated. You will be guided step by step how to shape the form by cutting and slicing the...
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