Screen printing for ceramics with Simon Suckling

Name: Screen printing for ceramics with Simon Suckling
Start: 2025-10-12T09:00:00+1000
End: 2025-10-12T16:00:00+1000
Location: Gold Coast Potters Association

Sun, 12 Oct, 9am - 4pm AEST

Gold Coast Potters Association

Benowa QLD, Australia

Gold Coast Potters

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Event description

This fantastic one-day intensive workshop will allow you to turn your own designs into vibrant and expressive decorated ceramic ware.

Designed for people working with clay, this workshop will demonstrate how to put your designs in repeat on ceramic surfaces.

Bring along your own small pieces to decorate in white clay with a smooth surface.

During this one-day workshop students will cover:

Drawing for printmaking, formatting your images for print
The basics of silk screen printing, including preparing a film positive, coating and exposing a silk screen, using low cost accessible equipment
Working with off the shelf underglaze as a printing paste.
Working with underglaze to hand colour your prints
The workshop will explore direct printing process as well as tissue transfer process

Suitable for beginners, intermediate and experienced artists.

Please arrive at 8:45am ready for a 9am start. Morning and afternoon tea supplied along with colourants for your clay and slip for decorating. Participants are asked to bring along some bisque or greenware pots and test tiles. Full details will be provided to participants before the workshop. Lunch, firing and clay are not included (clay is available to purchase at the studio if needed).

About your Workshop Facilitator

Simon Suckling is a mid-career artist and designer based in Meanjin Brisbane.

Simon is studied Visual Arts at University of Southern Queensland and an MA from Monash University in Melbourne. He has been a practicing ceramic artist for 35 years.

Simon has studied porcelain and studio pottery in Japan and China and currently produces handmade works under the name of Bluehouse Porcelain.

Simon’s ceramic practice incorporates botanical illustration and printmaking, with each drawing rendered in multiple layers of silk-screened vitreous enamel transferred to porcelain surfaces.

His work is held in collection of the State Library of Queensland and the Museum of Brisbane

Artist statement

I make intimate portraits of the natural world surrounding my inner-city home in Bardon. It is a place where the natural world collides with the concrete and asphalt of the encroaching city. A place where animals and plants constantly adapt to their changing environment. These are stories of loss and destruction, resilience and hope. My practice is grounded in drawing, a language that allows me to traverse material constraints and communicate across disciplines.

I make small ceramic works as a gentle reminder that nature is not something that occurs elsewhere, it is here on our doorstep to nurture and cherish.

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Refund policy

In accordance with Australian consumer law, the Association is not required to provide a refund if you change your mind. However, we recognise that unforeseen circumstances arise which requires people to reassess their priorities and commitments. This policy specifically applies to classes, workshops and events in which members of our community have registered and paid to participate. The circumstances under which a refund is granted, and the applicable cancellation fee, is based on the following considerations: • Classes, workshops and events require a minimum number of attendees to ensure the financial viability of running that event. • The closer we get to the scheduled date of the event or commencement of class term, the more difficult it is to substitute the places left vacant as a result of attendees cancelling their booking. • Withdrawal from classes, after the commencement of term, may result in loss of income for the Association’s teachers. • Cancellation of classes, workshops and events creates additional work for our teachers and volunteers. • The Association is accountable for cancellation fees that workshop facilitators may impose. NOTIFICATION and CANCELLATION FEES Notification of cancellations must be in writing, via email, even where that notification is first given face-to- face or by phone. The date of cancellation is taken from the day the email is received. The primary contact email for cancellations is info@goldcoastpotters.com along with the respective teacher and/or markets (markets@goldocoastpotters.com ) or events coordinator (events@goldcoastpotters.com ) depending on the type of event cancellation. Where cancellations occur, the following refund and fees apply: • Greater than 30 calendar days notification - 100 % refund. • Between 15 and 30 calendar days notification - 50% refund. • 14 or less calendar days notification – No refund. For example, if a $200 workshop is cancelled 15 days prior to the event, a $100 refund is granted. Refunds are typically processed with 14 working days of written notification. FORCE MAJEURE Where unforeseen circumstances such as natural disasters, health pandemics or other uncontrollable events occur, the Association has the discretion to review the above terms. SUBSTITUTING and BACKFILLING A person cancelling their classes, workshop or event may choose to arrange a substitute person. A full refund is provided 14 days following receipt of the substitute’s payment. Reviewed November, 2024 – v1.0 When cancellations occur, teachers and volunteers of the Association undertake their best efforts to back fill and re-sell the vacancy (classes, workshops or events). Where tickets are able to be re-sold, a full refund is provided within 14 days. DISCRETIONARY CIRCUMSTANCES The Association’s Cancellation and Refund Policy is the standard for managing cancellations however exceptional circumstances will be considered. For example, medical emergencies, death of immediate family member. In extreme circumstances, the Association will consider refunds, rescheduling and/or holding funds to be applied to an alternative event in future. Individual teachers also have discretionary approval to make alternative arrangements so long as the loss, resulting from the cancellation, does not impact the financial agreements made with the Association. GCPA CANCELLATIONS In unavoidable circumstances where it is the Gold Coast Potters Association that cancels a class, workshop or event, then refunds will be granted. The cause of such cancellations may relate to extreme weather, pandemics, or injury and illness. In the case of classes, the refund would be on a pro-rata basis. That is, if classes have commenced, the refund is for the remainder of the term or specific number of classes that have been cancelled.

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Sun, 12 Oct, 9am - 4pm AEST

Gold Coast Potters Association

Benowa QLD, Australia

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