Speaking Place: Ceramics workshop with Steve Williams

"The cup or drinking vessel can be a great seed for the workshop and would be open to wheelthrowers and handbuilders.  A makers personal character and pot character can come together by looking closely at design and all the elements that make up a form.  You can take a mathematical approach to form and match points of a vessel, volume, volume position, rim thickness, rim direction, handle contact points, etc. Understanding visual weight and formal design elements helps a maker to see and make confident decision about their work. We would look at a variety of handle making techniques." - Steve Williams

Ticket includes Saturday workshop, materials, and welcome coffee on arrival and lunch, admission to the Speaking Place Festival on Sunday 25th October, where participants will showcase their newfound skills for the community.

$180 per person

Optional extra: Speaking Place dinner on the evening of Saturday 24th October, $60 per person

Speaking Place workshops are for participants aged over16 years. Participants aged under 18 years will require a guardian's acknowledgement on waiver form.

About Speaking Place:

On the inspiring grounds of Piccolo Family Farm, a series of arts workshops and seminars are facilitated by skilled professional makers and artists across various unique creative disciplines. The workshops will centre around the concept of Place, and how makers and creatives evoke and communicate Place through their craft. Throughout the day, facilitators and participants have the opportunity to gather with the other participants, fostering creative networking and the exchange of ideas and thoughtful conversation.

Speaking Place was founded to provide access to world-class artistic skills for regional audiences. It also has a strong focus on ongoing impact, encouraging further creative collaboration and artistic exploration beyond the Speaking Place weekend.

‘Place’ is a generous topic of exploration. It gives artists and audiences an infinite world of discussion and discovery of how their craft ‘speaks place’ and opens them up to a journey of creative understanding and collaboration.

The Regional Arts Fund is an Australian Government initiative that supports sustainable cultural development in regional, remote and very remote Australia.

The project was made possible by the Australian Government’s Regional Arts Fund, provided through Regional Arts Australia and Regional Arts NSW.