Flotilla
Workshops and Tours
CLAY MOUNTAIN
SATURDAY 29 JULY – SATURDAY 12 AUGUST
11AM-3PM
Free, drop in, all ages welcome
Clay Mountain is an experiment in collaborative, monumental clay sculpture that will run for the first two weeks of Charlotte Barker’s exhibition, ‘Flotilla’.
Four tons of clay will be in the courtyard of Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop and visitors will be encouraged to contribute to the ongoing, evolving sculpture.
CLAY MOUNTAIN WORKSHOP
SATURDAY 29 JULY
11AM-3PM
Free, drop in, all ages welcome
Clay Mountain will open with a workshop led by Charlotte Barker and Jack Cheetham where you can experiment with free forming and modelling using various tools and objects.
CERAMIC AND BARREL FIRING WORKSHOP WITH LAURA ALDRIDGE
MONDAY 31 JULY
10AM-12PM OR 2PM-4PM
Free, but limited spaces so booking essential
Call 0131 551 4490 to book a place
The first part of a two part ceramic workshop looking at alternative firing techniques led by Laura Aldridge. In the first workshop you will make sculptural works to be barrel or raku fired on Saturday 12th August.
SATURDAY 12 AUGUST
10AM – 3PM
The second workshop is the barrel firing where the ceramic pieces will be wrapped in natural materials before they are placed in the Sculpture Workshop barrel kiln. Smaller pieces will be fired at super-speed in a microwave raku kiln.
Please note participants must be available to attend workshops on 31 July and 12 August.
The courtyard will be open from 11am for people to observe the firing or participate in clay mountain.
Innovatively continuing the theme of fire – Milk Café BBQ 1pm-4pm
CERAMIC MASTERCLASS WITH CHARLOTTE BARKER
SATURDAY 26 AUGUST
10AM – 4PM
£75
An exciting opportunity to work with Charlotte Barker. In this one day course you will learn how to make large-scale, abstract ceramic sculptural forms using coil and slab building techniques and the porcelain slip, surface decoration process. The objects will be high fired with a stone-like finish in black or white.
CURATOR’S TOUR
SATURDAY 29 JULY
AND
SATURDAY 12 AUGUST
2PM -3PM
Free, drop in, all ages welcome
Join us for an informal tour of ‘Flotilla’ with the Curator Dan Brown.
DESCRIPTIVE EXHIBITION TOUR
SATURDAY 19 AUGUST, 2PM
AND
WEDNESDAY 23 AUGUST, 11AM
Free, drop in
Call on 0131 551 4490 for further information
Join our Front of House Manager, Lynn Cowan, as she leads an exhibition tour specifically designed for visually impaired visitors. The tour includes a touch element where you will be able to handle several works provided by artist, Charlotte Barker.
Thank you to the Morton Charitable Trust for supporting our Festival Workshop Programme.
