Workshops
Sgraffito Workshop
For existing members at Turning Earth Highgate.
Join Bec Wonders as she introduces you to the world of Sgraffito in this upcoming members workshop. Here, you will gain knowledge of how to transfer your designs onto your leather hard pots and sculptures using this unique surface design method.
Bec shall be giving a short demo on design work and then guide you through the making process and use of tools specific to sgraffito.
Bec’s work focuses on folklore and the myths surrounding our lives and transforming these into figurative and abstract designs onto her pottery. Bec is a critically acclaimed, multidisciplinary artist based in London and focusing on contemporary design work with a focus on mythology and esoteric themes.
Sgraffito Workshop
Join artist and current Earthworks artist-in-residence Bec Wonders for a workshop exploring sgraffito carving where images are created by carving through layers of color to reveal the clay beneath. Drawing on her research-led practice, Bec will introduce how she transforms historical references and folklore into designs for clay, offering insight into her creative process alongside practical demonstrations.
Over the course of this three-hour workshop, you will learn the fundamentals of sgraffito carving by applying coloured underglaze to leather-hard clay and carving through the surface. A selection of transfer illustrations inspired by autumnal folklore will be provided, alongside individual guidance on adapting imagery to ceramic forms. You are also welcome to bring your own sketches, although no preparation is required.
The session begins with experimentation on practice tiles using a range of carving tools before moving on to a finished tile. Those with their own trimmed stoneware greenware are welcome to decorate it instead of using a tile. No previous experience of ceramics, illustration or sgraffito is necessary.
Book via Earthworks Ceramic Studios.
Sgraffito Workshop
Students will gain knowledge and practice of sgraffito, a decorative carving technique that can be applied to greenware surfaces. Slip or underglaze is applied to completely cover the greenware surface which is then carved away to reveal the bare clay. Students will initially practice on a “sketchbook” tile and then move on to another tile or their own trimmed greenware pieces. Designs can range from abstract mark-making to more intricately illustrated images.
Book via Pothole Clay Workshop.
Sgraffito Workshop
Students will gain knowledge and practice of sgraffito, a decorative carving technique that can be applied to greenware surfaces. Slip or underglaze is applied to completely cover the greenware surface which is then carved away to reveal the bare clay. Students will initially practice on a “sketchbook” tile and then move on to another tile or their own trimmed greenware pieces. Designs can range from abstract mark-making to more intricately illustrated images.
Booking via Crouch End Clayhouse.
Fibre Ornament Workshop
Make yourself a furry festive Christmas ornament just in time for the big day. Learn how to wrap threads and create unusual shapes and textures using yarn. You’ll leave with your very own fibre friend ornament!
A World Without Patriarchy
As feminists, most of us can easily recite what we oppose: male violence, patriarchy and subjugation along all the axes of oppression. However, we don’t often take the time t o consider what kind of world we are fighting for. What would it look like, feel like and taste like to replace the patriarchal imagination with a feminist one?
In this interactive workshop at FiLiA 2022, historian and artist Dr. Bec Wonders will present an overview of how feminist science fiction writers have attempted to go beyond what we know and create visions of what we want. By exploring imaginary fmeinist utopias as envisioned by Ursula K. Le Guin, Octavia Butler, Joanna Russ and many more, the participants of this lecture will be challenged to think creatively about feminist futures.