Lunchtime workshops



October 28, 2009

Modelled headThis week I’m running lunchtime workshops, demonstrating figure and animal modelling to schoolchildren during half-term week. The children are enthralled, and enjoy choosing which animals I should put together from the modelled parts. I am shocked at how many parents say that their children don’t get the chance to handle clay at primary school.

The plaster casting of Janus is finished and the mould ‘broken’ open to allow the individual pieces to dry out ready for pressing next week.

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October 28, 2009

Stephen Dixon was the V&A’s first ceramicist in residence (September 2009-February 2010). Stephen received his Masters in Ceramics from the Royal College of Art and has written and lectured widely....

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