Ceramic Christmas Tree Workshop
Festive ceramics inspired by nature
Create a beautiful handmade Christmas tree with ceramicist Jane McCulla at The Kiosk in the Botanic Gardens
Inspired by the shapes and textures found in nature, Jane will introduce you to simple hand-building techniques and show you how to create botanical impressions in clay. You’ll then shape and decorate your own ceramic Christmas tree, adding your own combination of natural textures and patterns.
Jane will glaze and fire your finished piece in her studio. Two weeks later, you’ll collect your completed tree — a unique, handmade decoration to bring out and enjoy each Christmas.
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Meet your Tutor
Jane McCulla, Ceramicist
A ceramic artist, Jane McCulla graduated as a mature student with a 1st Class BA Hons in Fine & Applied Art at the University of Ulster, Belfast, Northern Ireland in 2006. Immigrating to NZ with her family in 2009, she established a home based studio in Riverton, Southland, supplying galleries with her ceramic pieces. A year later, she moved north to Christchurch. Jane creates textured, stretched, stoneware clay vessels and forms at her home-based studio in Diamond Harbour, Canterbury. She imbues fluid textures on her stoneware pieces, suggesting geology, archaeology, and mankind’s marks on the landscape, fluxed over time. Teaching classes and workshops throughout NZ, she also undertakes both private and public commissions, including the Lyttel People Land Art Mandala in Albion Square, Lyttelton. For over 7 years, she was involved as a Regional Council Member and Vice President of Ceramics Association of NZ. In 2017, Jane completed a seven-week residency at The Pottery Workshop in Jingdezhen, the porcelain capital of the world in China. Her ceramics have been featured in various publications and exhibited in both solo and national shows in London, UK, Ireland, and NZ. Her pieces are held in both private and public collections worldwide, and she has received several awards, including a Portage Merit Award in 2013.
Workshop Details
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Sunday 22 November
The workshop takes place in the Kiosk, just over the Armagh street footbridge in the Christchurch Botanic Gardens. There is plenty of paid parking available in the carpark. Please wear something you don't mind getting a drop or two of clay on - or bring an apron :-)
Tickets for good, not greed Humanitix dedicates 100% of profits from booking fees to charity
$85 ($105 Non-Members)
$85 ($105 Non-Members)
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