Bridget Macklin - Wycke Vessel
Timing: 09:30 for 10am to 4:30pm Saturday
10 - 4pm Sunday
Class Size: Minimum 4, Maximum 8 students
Level: Intermediate ceramicists
Clay type: Audrey Blackman Porcelain and additions
Cost: £412 (In full or in instalments)
What to bring: All tools are provided but you are welcome to bring your own plus…
Apron, notebook and pen.
If you would like to bring your own clay to add, please bring clay, not soil. Check you have permission to remove it from its site and ……………………………………………………………………………………..that it is not chalk or limestone based
Aims of the course:
We are delighted to welcome master potter Bridget Macklin to run our two-day adding inclusions masterclass.
Bridget will explore the stages involved in using wild clay mixed into porcelain and the Kohiki method of applying any manipulating slip. She will also spend some time talking about her route into ceramics and where it has led. If you have specifics that you hope can be included, please mention that under ‘previous experience’ at booking.
This is a small group, intensive, explorative hand-building course allowing for ample tutor attention.
N.B. At the end of the course it will be possible to take your work home as greenware (charged for by weight) or to leave a piece at Vessel Ceramics to be biscuit fired to be collected later.
ABOUT BRIDGET:
Bridget was awarded full membership of Design Nation in 2017. She has a Masters degree in Fine Art (Distinction) from Falmouth University and qualifications from City Lit College in ceramics and structured ceramics. She has been granted many awards and has exhibited widely including at the RCA. Her work is held in a number of collections, both private and public.
Bridget’s work tells the story of our landscape and the way that we relate to it: the behaviours of man during the geological epoch now known as the Anthropocene. She is interested in the simplicity of form, creating experimental work, and often uses unglazed clay.
She starts her unique, fragile pieces from pure porcelain with connotations of beauty, value and fragility to which she adds found materials and images. Bridget delights in experimenting and in taking risks, striving for ever-thinner work which only reveals its full nature on closer inspection. Work is high fired to bring out the translucence of the porcelain and to flux or burn any inclusions. This causes pressure within the piece and results in distortions, craters, blisters and exploding splinters of rock, the impacts of which appear as points of tension.
A sense of place is important, and her work often includes found materials and images, which tell the story of a location. Works are installed in gallery spaces but also, because of these concerns for place, in sites beyond formal gallery such as museums, outdoors and in site specific contexts.
Check out her current work here.
Payment:
(If you would prefer to pay a deposit or pay in instalments then please contact us today at hello@vessel-ceramics.co.uk )
There is a non-refundable* and non-transferrable £198 deposit at the point of booking with the balance of fees due 3 weeks before the course starts.
It is strongly recommended that you take out travel insurance in the event that you cannot attend.
Before you book a course, please make sure you read our terms and conditions here, including cancellations. Please also read our student contract here.
ACCOMMODATION:
Vessel Ceramics is nestled in the heart of Moretonhampstead, ancient stannary town on Dartmoor. There are numerous, lovely places to stay though as it is a tourist destination, it’s advisable to book as early as possible.
To see examples of local accommodation, click here.