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  • The Studio
    • The Space
    • Gallery
  • Classes
  • Members
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    • Gallery
    • Pottery Artist Shop
  • Events
    • Pop Up Pots
    • Corporate Off-site
    • Studio Hire
  • The Team
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At the heart of Studio Pottery London is Membership. 18 hours a week of studio time provides access to a community of like minded individuals who share a common ethos and a fundamental love of pottery in all its many forms. We have seen a surge in membership follow our reopening and look forward to selling makers vessels online and @ecclestonyards new Sunday outdoor market which opens on the 16th August in SW1! Photo by @dutodom 🎶
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One-to-two creative throwing class with friends @caggiesworld @farleigh_rose. Private classes available with our experienced tutors from Tuesday to Saturday. Book your craft workshop through our website https://www.studio-pottery-london.com/classes/#classes-one-on-one 🍁
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Fresh from the kiln. New member Steven exquisite vases with Studio Pottery London’s in-house glazes 🍁
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Delighted to welcome wonderful actor @joshographee to sample throwing on the wheel with @gregorytingay. A real pleasure to show him the studio: thank you @russelltovey! 👑
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Wednesday night at our SW1 studio hosting one of our reopened taster classes. Together, with the teaching team and technician, we provide excellent support for the studio membership community. Curated window and vitrine displays of historic and contemporary ceramics inspire our makers and are for sale to visitors. @spotifyuk ❤️
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The studio'shop has been buzzing these past few weeks and we are delighted to be selling the work by our Artist Director @gregorytingay. Please@contact the studio for details. ❤️ Gregory’s work consists very much of strongly individual art pieces, each telling their own story by sgraffito patterning through slip exterior surfaces, and given specific titles which expand the artistic content. This coral slip & sgraffito ‘Voyage to the Moon’ and ‘Stone Sentinels’, constitute the primary pieces from Gregory’s artist residency last summer at Hauser & Wirth Somerset. For COLLECT he made two new moonjars, one entitled ‘Marginalia’ in free-flowing organic decoration: a sister piece stylistically to ‘Voyage to the Moon’. The second, a complex piece of sgraffito through brown slip with inlaid matte white and dark blue exterior glazes, is called ‘Metamorphosis’. This piece has as a starting point of inspiration the iron man-hole covers sighted by the artist near his home along the pavement of the 18th Highbury Terrace, but metamorphosed into eyes, mouths... hints at creatures emerging from patterns. Subject-wise this piece links to ‘Marginalia’, both made at SPL shortly before his COLLECT show. The swirling curlicues and organic efflorescence of this work is reminiscent of the marginalia, the doodling of medieval monks in the margins of illuminated manuscripts. Oftentimes strange creatures would be incorporated into these patterns - pointing to ‘Metamorphosis’. A tangential nod towards Gregory’s past as a monk can be read in these pieces. His final artwork last summer as artist in residence at Hauser & Wirth was to create a quasi illuminated page in the artist resident book summarising his achievement over that summer. ‘Stone Sentinels’ has four discernible African mask faces - guardian spirits- emerging from the more geometric patterns, with the undecorated slip areas forming architectonic limbs and arms raised in votive supplication. This work has subconscious inspiration in the ancient stone structures of Great Zimbabwe in Matabeleland. Photo @dutodom
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We are very lucky work with @dutodom who has been photographing our beautiful design studio by @flint_interior_design from the beginning #family. Here are a few vessel for sale by artists @gregorytingay, @michel_francois_porcelain & Jason Wason. We are uniquely located in central London in the heart of Victoria. A place of calm and community, our carefully curated space provides a perfect environment for city-dwellers to come together to learn and create.
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Inspiration in hard times #makersmonday ‘Running above the shelves in the studio is a long line of matching beakers, each with a letter, sgraffito through slip, spelling out some lines of poetry. I threw on the wheel nearly 250 lettered beakers during my artist residency last summer at Hauser & Wirth Somerset - my potter’s take on Tracy Emin’s neon light texts - spelling out lines from TS Eliot’s great sequence of poems, The Four Quartets. Partly my intention was to demonstrate the fundamental grounding of our practice in repeat throwing using the same weight of clay to make a run of simple beakers - making a straight-sided cylinder is the first step in learning how to throw. But I was also keen to use some profound poetry within my work to elevate these simple beakers into an installation. Back at the new Studio, I placed some of these poetic beakers to inspire our makers. The text is somewhat relevant to us today as we stay at home. The beakers spell out this text: ‘Home is where one starts from, As we grow older the world becomes stranger, The pattern more complicated of dead and living’ From home we can reflect on all that is positive and creative in our lives and draw hope’. ❤️ @gregorytingay #pottery #beakers #poetry #contemporaryceramics #tseliot #wheelthrowing #potteryclasses #inspiration
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Due to popular demand the studio is adding an additional Taster Wed 22nd July 6-9pm with teacher @pottedben. Book via our website alongside our other dates 10 - 1pm 18th July & 10 - 1pm 19th July with @celiadowson_ceramics. 🌱 We are uniquely located in central London in the heart of Victoria. A place of calm and community, our carefully curated space provides a perfect environment for city-dwellers to come together to learn and create.
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Team together! We are part of Eccleston Yards @ecclestonyards amazing SW1 community, who love to support each other.. Tomorrow @wildbytart are having a Popup in The Yards to celebrate summer.. It will be super fun so please come along ❤️ #handmadetableware #gonewiththewind #studiopottery #restaurantfood
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SOLD OUT in two hours, congratulations to one of our studio’s first members @dbceramic . Deborah uses a decorating technique with bubbles and colouring oxides, Aqua - colour of the Caribbean Sea. This is testament to the maker’s skill, instagram as a tool for marketing and an appetite for handmade objects. We hope this encourages members and all future members to utilise our online SHOP as part of their 2, 6 or annual membership ❤️
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This week we are writing about how pottery can support mental and emotional wellness for @MINDBODY’s blog The Enzo. Why is now the perfect time to try pottery? More than ever since the pandemic has forced us all to reevaluate what is important in our daily lives as humans, pottery stands out for its groundedness, its tradition and history, its perennial invitation to the individual to reconnect with the gift of our hands. Making pots with our hands revives hidden or even lost talents and renews contact with wells of interior creativity. The enforced isolation of lockdown, with the mental and physical stresses which has accompanied it, and the often imposed work from home online, gives the outlet of working in clay an added attraction. How better to escape the demands of online technology than to switch off one part of the brain and turn towards another creative side of our being? Physical stress as well as mental tensions are soothed and rechannelled in the practice of pottery: to make a pot one has to set aside all stresses and lose oneself in the almost contemplative act of making in the present moment. As we emerge battered from the pandemic, pottery can be a means of recovery, of escape, of reconfiguration, of alchemy transforming negativity into the quiet beauty of a well-crafted and realised ceramic vessel. Therapy and practical creativity combined. Full article https://mindbody.io/blog/wellness/how-can-pottery-support-mental-and-emotional-wellness?fbclid=IwAR1p8su-vscLX3-rOjxBgVaac83WrJc7DenFTVS28kA3TBrk5PPM0e4oIO0 #makersmonday
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