Create with clay alongside local artist Baylee Griffin. Baylee will guide participants through the steps of building a functional stoneware vessel in The Studio. Learn how to decorate your pieces by carving with tools and pressing textured items into the clay. Design a one-of-a-kind pottery item to keep or a unique hand-made gift!

This workshop is suitable for beginners and finished work will be microwave and dishwasher safe. All materials and equipment, glazing and firing fees, and tea and coffee are included. Artworks will be available to collect from Umbrella approximately one month after the workshop. 

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Umbrella Members $90 | Full Price $110

Limited to 15 spaces (ages 15+) | Bookings close on the Friday prior to the Workshop Day at 4pm. | The workshops will take place in Umbrella’s downstairs studio at 408 Flinders St (next to Mary Who? Bookshop and opposite Woolworths). | All bookings subject to Umbrella's workshop and public programs booking policy.

Baylee Griffin (they/she) is an artist and community arts facilitator. Largely working with ceramics, their practice is an act of resilience and reciprocity, rooted in identity and embodied ecocentrism – that is, the view or belief that the rights and needs of humans are not more important than those of other living things. Griffin’s studio practice is accordingly rooted in sustainability, where they endeavour to find and create with accessible local material. Griffin volunteers as the secretary of North Queensland Potters Association and their work in community arts has taken them throughout regional and rural Queensland, where they care deeply about fostering meaningful connections with, and holding safe spaces for diverse communities.

Griffin was a finalist in the 2022 North Queensland Ceramic Awards and has exhibited throughout Queensland. The artist received a 2023 RADF grant to interrogate the sustainability of their practice, and they shared their findings with the community through seminars and workshops. Griffin has written multiple articles for the Journal of Australian Ceramics as a part of their dedication to connecting regional practice to global dialogues.

Image: Baylee Griffin, 2023. Photograph: Wing Hong Leung.