A 3-hour introductory session to Ceramics for Beginners! You will have fun having a go at the potters’ wheel and unleashing your creativity at hand-building. The perfect activity for a bonding session while you learn. You think three hours sounds long drawn, try it for yourself to see how fast it passes as well as the quality of time spent!

• Session fee does not include the cost of firing but participants can choose to have any of their completed pieces fired and glazed @ $10.00/piece.

• Collection of glazed-fired works in 8-9 weeks after session

• All participants must be minimum aged 13 and above

• Sessions purchased are non-refundable and not permissible for rescheduling

• Sessions are currently only held @ Pearls Hill Terrace Studio.

Been wanting to try out the Potter’s wheel and no time for our Pottery Do-It-All? Now is the chance to try out working on the Potter’s Wheel within a short 1.5 hours where you get to try centering on the wheel, coning up and down before pulling a piece of your own through these limited sessions!

The ideal brief experience of having a go at making your own tableware on the wheel and impress your peers and colleagues when you flaunt and use them!

(Participants need to be minimum aged 13 and above)

Session fee does not include the cost of firing but participants can choose to have any of their completed pieces fired and glazed @ $10.00/piece.

Collection of glazed-fired works in 8-9 weeks after session

*Sessions purchased are non-refundable and not permissible for rescheduling.

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Saturdays @ New Bahru Studio

Sundays @ Pearls Hill Terrace Studio

Discover the therapeutic and malleability of clay through a series of engaging hand-building workshops designed for young children @ The Potters' Guilt!

Have them create their own functional ware while learning about patterns, textures, colours and form through the techniques of handbuilding and pottery on the wheel!

All session fees include for 1 completed piece/pax to be fired and glazed, additional pieces can be fired at $10.00 per piece.

Collection of glazed-fired works in 8-9 weeks after the session

Workshop 1: Handbuilding Workshop (recommended 6-11 yrs old)

$55.00/child

Date: Saturdays 13 Sep, 10:00am-12:00pm

Make your own unique functional and ornamental pieces through the various Handbuilding techniques and see a lump of clay transform right before your eyes!

Exploration of Handbuilding Techniques- Pinching, Coiling or Slab Building; create your own Big Mug and explore textures, patterns and repetition in your decoration!

Technique: Hand Building Techniques

Outcome: 1 Functional/Ornamental Piece

Workshop 2: Wheel-ing Time! (Adult & Child, 8-12 years old)

$110.00/pair

Date: Saturdays 27 Sep, 10:30am-12:00pm

Share your first throwing experience together as parent/guardian and child, and create your own masterpieces on the pottery wheel! You will get to take turns on the wheel one after the other and experience the failure and success together!

Technique: Throwing on the Wheel

Outcome: 1 cup/bowl per participant

The Potters’ Guilt Masterclass series is back! We are proud to bring in Aya Murata, renowned for her intricate and dynamic Nerikomi works for a series of talks and masterclasses. The complex technique of Nerikomi involves stacking and cutting colored pieces of clay to form different patterns before their multiple layers of colours are revealed eventually on its surface planes. Aya will be sharing her extensive experience and practice in Nerikomi from clay preparation to working with the layered coloured clay in the crafting of her pieces. 

Priority registration for current students and alumni. 

Experience the whole process of nerikomi from scratch- from the preparation of coloured clay with Japanese pigment to refining your plan and design for a final small dish through using a hump mould with tessellation as an approach!

Dates / Time

5th July Wednesday 10am - 5pm

9th July Sunday 10am - 5pm

Demo & Artist Talk (2hrs) AM

Hands-on Workshop (4hrs) PM

The first of our many ad-hoc visiting artists workshop where we hold one-off workshops by artists friends visiting from around the world!

Learn to pinch your own customised cup & saucer that is unique and one of a kind! Other than form and materiality, discover the considerations of anthropometry and ergonomics in design. Whether if you’re racking your brain about what to get for that loved one this Christmas or think it’s time to do a Greta Thunberg and remind your colleagues to cut down on the disposables, take the opportunity to see what our visiting artist can offer and value add to your understanding of pinching and custom-made design.

Just remember there must be space for a curling little pinkie as you hold and sip from the winning cup of yours!

About the artist-

Lin Chi Yun was born in Taipei, Taiwan. She received her MFA from Tainan National University of the Arts in 2018 and currently practice in a rented studio in Tainan. Since then, she had been invited to Arctic Clay Center in Posio, Finland in April-May 2019 and California State University Long Beach, Los Angeles, USA in June-August 2019 as resident Artist. Her works had been exhibited internationally, in China, Korea, Japan, Finland and USA. She creates a variety of narrative sculptures and is also a part of a clay collective called “Mud Child” where they create interesting non-conventional functional ceramics for daily usage.

Sgraffito is an Italian word for "scratched". Make a plate or a cup and learn how to design by layering contrasting slips and then scratching through its surface to reveal the lower layer. Not content with making and wanna have a go at using colours to go with your designs? You just have to give Sgraffito a try!

Date: Saturdays (9am-11:30am)

• Outcome: 1 x small plate or cup.

• Collection of glazed-fired works in 8-9 weeks after session

• All participants must be minimum aged 13 and above

• Sessions purchased are non-refundable and not permissible for rescheduling