Art House 46
Address: 57 Coillesdene Avenue
Open: 6/7 September, 10am-6pm
Events
Sat 6th, 11am: Pottery demonstration with Michelle Lowe
Michelle will demonstrate her pottery techniques including throwing pieces on the wheel and decorating her work using slips and sgraffito (drawing illustrations into clay with a sharp needle tool). Free, no need to book.
All weekend: Refreshments and crafty play.
Tea, coffee and cake available in the garden for a donation to Refugee Sanctuary Scotland. Also clay and art materials to play with for adults and kids.
Lively colourful slipware pots that are made for use. The pieces have fun, illustrative decorations with themes including hedgerow plants and berries, wild swimming, bikes, and pottery collections.
Michelle works from her garden studio in Joppa. All her work is handmade in warm red earthenware clay, coated in a creamy slip and decorated with coloured slips, oxides and glazes. She aims to make pots that are useful and beautiful and hopes to encourage people to enjoy the small daily pleasure of hand-crafted objects in the sharing of a pot of tea or a home cooked meal.
Michelle has worked as a professional potter for over a decade after coming to ceramics by a round-about route via a background in Social Anthropology and a first career working for human rights and social justice charities. She trained as an assistant to Bärbel Dister at Cromarty Pottery. She is a member of the Scottish Potters Association, a selected member of the Craft Scotland Directory, Applied Arts Scotland and Find a Maker. She exhibits regularly in galleries across Scotland and further afield.
Website: www.michellelowepottery.co.uk
Instagram: @michellelowepottery
Contact: info@michellelowepottery.co.uk
Also showing with Kasia Matyjaszek & Becka Gauld