Description
Concession ticket: Teapots – Throwing and Assembling with Will Keating
Saturday 30th August, Sunday 31st August
9:30 am – 4:30 pm
Please note the concession rate is reserved for those who have recently graduated, are in financial need and could not otherwise afford the course fee. If this does not apply to you, please book a full price ticket and leave the limited number of concessionary rate tickets to those who need them. You can book a full price ticket here.
Teapots are a popular but notoriously difficult challenge for any potter. In this two-day workshop, participants will learn how to throw and assemble their own functional teapot. After a discussion on different teapot styles and functions, students will learn how to make the teapot body, spout, handle, lid and strainer, and then how to combine them into an attractive and functional teapot. Participants are encouraged to bring any of their own creations for discussion and critique, as well as any tea they would like to share!
Having worked closely with tea practitioners in the past, Will pays careful attention to the finer details of how a teapot functions. Drawing inspiration from tea ceremonies around the world, he makes a variety of teapots in his own practice, and participants will have the opportunity to experiment with a number of different forms and styles. To get the most out of this course, it is recommended for intermediate and advanced throwers only, as a degree of throwing experience is required.
Schedule
Day 1:
9:30am Intro and Discussion
10am Demonstration
11am Throwing
1pm Lunch
1.30pm Throwing
2.30pm Break, Demonstration
3pm Throwing
4pm Cleandown
Day 2:
9:30am Demonstration
10am Assembling
1pm Lunch
1.30pm Demonstration
2pm Assembling
4pm Cleandown
About Will
I am a potter, an artist, a craftsperson.
Above all else, I am a maker. I live to create things which can be enjoyed.
Before discovering clay I very nearly became a physicist. What might seem like a very different career has always felt much closer than you might think. If the goal of physics is to describe the infinite universe using a handful of mathematical constants and variables, then my work is an attempt to understand our place within that universe, combining a few scattered rocks and clays, and observing the infinite possibilities that arise therein.
I use handmade tools to form locally dug clays, glazing the pots with locally sourced rocks and plant ashes, before firing them in a wood-fired kiln made from hand-formed clay bricks.
After training under Korean potter Jun Rhee, I studied Ceramics at Clay College, Stoke-on-Trent from 2022-2024, thanks to a scholarship from the Queen Elizabeth Scholars Trust. Following my graduation, I undertook a period of work and research under the tutelage of potter Matt Hallyburton in Burke County, North Carolina, studying local geology and traditional Catawba Valley techniques.
I am currently in the process of establishing a new pottery on the edge of Bidston Hill Nature Reserve, on the Wirral Peninsula, Merseyside. Besides pottery, I am a novice baker and green woodworker.
https://www.willkeating.co.uk/
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