Pottery In Nature: Intro Workshop
Pottery sessions are back in the Garden! Get creative in nature, spend quality time with your friends/family and leave with your very own cup or bowl!
In collaboration with our friends from Gerlis Ceramics from Balik Pulau, we’ll introduce you to the basics of making ceramics: the pinching technique. Using stoneware clay to make tea cups or bowls, you’ll learn the guiding principles of pottery and have an opportunity to express your creativity (which we all have!) in your own way.
You will also learn and practice decorative application methods such as carving, stamping and patching to make your piece more attractive. The workshop fees covers glazing and firing so you’ll be able to use your creations at home!
18 March, Saturday
4-6pm
Glasshouse, Tropical Spice Garden
Spice Fam: RM50 | Public: RM80
Important:
1. All materials and glazes used in this class are non-toxic. Your mug is made from stoneware clay that are waterproof, microwave and food safe: a piece of functional pottery.
2. Dress comfortably in clothes you don’t mind getting a little messy in.
3. What to bring: A bucket loads of enthusiasm, your wonderful self, and maybe family or friends!
4. If you have the evening free, do consider joining us for our Garden Grill after the workshop: an evening with eat-all-you-can barbecue, music and drinks under the trees. Click here for tickets.
5. For more information, contact the team at 019 420 3797.
Meet your Instructor:
Dr. Shamsu Mohamad was a former Senior Lecturer of Design at the School of the Arts of Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM). He holds a Bachelor of Ceramics degree from UiTM, Malaysia and graduated with a Master of Industrial Design from the Central St Martins in United Kingdom. Dr Shamsu Mohamad also had the chance to undergo an in-depth study on the kiln firing techonology in Mino, Kamezaki, japan in 1999. He is a PhD holder from the School of Housing, Building and Planning, Universiti Sains.
His current research is in design and and clay materials, that deals with a variety of experimentation processes using organic materials and industrial waste such as empty fruit branch of palm trees, fresh water weeds, banana stem, sponges and papers. His research on glaze innovation won gold medal at Science and Technology Exposition, Malaysia ( 2002); Award of Excellence from Invention of New Product Exposition, USA at Science and Technology Exposition (2002); bronze medal at INPEX, USA (2003); silver medal at IEANA, Germany (2005); Chairman Prize of Korean Local Industrial Culture, 2011; and gold medal at ITEX, Malaysia (2014, 2005). He was appointed as a curator for various local ceramic exhibitions and was invited as a judge of the 19th International Design Trend Concours in 2014, organized by Korea Society of Design. As a prolific artist his works have been exhibited in prestigious venues in South Korea, Japan, Indonesia, Thailand, Hawaii, New Zealand, Australia, Pittsburgh( USA), Nuremberg( German) and Turkey and in a host of other countries.
