Ceramics Focus: Make your own Lighting product, mixed levels

About this course

Participants design and build a ceramic lighting product, considering form, decoration and clay shrinkage alongside the practical use of simple lighting fittings. The course introduces historical and contemporary approaches to ceramic lighting and explores ways of manipulating clay through different techniques. Learners develop designs through making, with regular tutor feedback on technical decisions, production and the relationship between ceramic components and post-firing elements. The class combines individual project work with learning alongside other participants.

What you'll learn

• Develop ceramic lighting designs that account for form, decoration and shrinkage
• Apply clay-manipulation techniques to construct a functional ceramic product
• Improve technical and production skills through individual project work
• Design ceramic products that incorporate post-firing elements

Is this course right for you?

The course is open to beginner and intermediate learners, with projects developed at different levels of experience. Participants work alongside one another and receive regular tutor feedback. Ceramics involves moderate physical activity, including wedging and rolling clay, and learners with concerns about physical fitness are advised to discuss them with the tutor.

• Suitable for learners working at beginner or intermediate level
• Includes moderate physical activity such as wedging and rolling clay
• The ceramics studio has lift access

Before you go

• Bring an apron or old shirt.
• A notebook and pen may be useful.
• The tutor will advise participants about tools to purchase.