Date and Time: Thursday 3 July 2025, 5pm - 7pm.
Venue: Crafts Council Gallery, 44a Pentonville Road, London N1 9BY (map).
Suitable for: All school staff.
Description of session
Come and join us in the Crafts Council Gallery for a fun and relaxed evening with ceramic specialist Duncan Hooson. Duncan is known for his wheel-thrown ceramics and producing work in schools and the public realm through co-design and creation projects. He is an advocate of cross-arts collaboration and craft in education. He is the co-founder and director of Clayground Collective and teaches on the BA Ceramic Design course at Central Saint Martins.
Get messy with clay and create a piece of work to take home with you. Take part for your own enrichment, while also learning how to use your new-found skills to support classroom learning.
Details of activity
We will explore clay using accessible techniques – pinch, coil, slab - which can be combined to create a range of objects and shapes. In addition to making these works, you’ll be encouraged to respond to the materials with a range of decorating techniques to mark the surface of your work.
We will use economical materials to explore a variety of outcomes that can be replicated in school, whether or not you have access to a kiln. We will look at how to recycle clay and look at projects where the learning is explorative, collaborative and ambitious!
