February Meeting 2026

 Members are invited to our first meeting of 2026.

Check your emails for details of time and activity details.

Sunday 1 February 2026 at 1.30pm in the hall at 5 Gibbs Street Miranda.

See you there!

the 2025 end of year get together

 All members are invited to come along on Sunday 7 December and share a meal together at the hall from 1pm to 3pm.

Please bring food to share and a drink if you don't want tea or coffee.

Scroll the posts below to revisit some of our activities during the year as we look forward to even more in 2026.

image- Ann's luminary Christmas tree being made at the October meeting.

Ray and Janet with saggar fire results

Our library continues to be popular with members

and took part in the Heritage Festival "Shire Creativity" show at South Village Kirrawee with Continuum Arts and their paintings.

Exhibiting members took part in the craft market at the Thirroul Art Festival

The big event has arrived - Australian Ceramics Open Studios 2025

 this weekend will be a big one for our members as we take part in the Australian Ceramics Open Studios 2025.

This is a national event and potters and ceramic artists all over Australia will be taking part.

We will be open for you to visit us both days, Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 November, from 10am to 4pm both days.

Our address is 5 Gibbs Street Miranda 2228 near the entrance to the rail commuter carpark and a short stroll from the station.

Not only will our members have their creations on display and available for you to purchase, we will also be conducting demonstrations of wheel throwing, coiling a vessel and making flowers in clay.  

For those contemplating joining us you can do so on the day, inspect our kilns which members can hire (after training) and generally chat about our love of creating with clay.

Hope you can visit and bring your friends...

Raku vessel by Christine Skrobek

Lyre Bird jar with lid by Janet Selby

Bells by Rochelle Johnston

Nerikomi vessel by Jitka Koprika

Waratah mug and dish by Anna Ryland

Save the Date

 We will be taking part in the annual event organised by the Australian Ceramics Association this year.

The Australian Ceramics Open Studio will take place in November - more details to come but we will be involved with an exhibition, demonstrations and more, over the two days.

The Big Saggar Reveal

 Our meeting on Sunday 3 August was the Big Saggar Reveal.

After being taken off site to be fired in a gas kiln, all our saggars were brought back to the hall and unpacked.

Packing our saggars at the July meeting

Our saggar bundles in the gas kiln

Some bundles were tricky to undo but there was only the one casualty where the clay saggar was too tight around the neck of a bottle.

The 'before' combustibles in a shallow dish

After the kiln firing to 600 deg C all organics have burnt out leaving just the wire wrapped around the bundle

'Before' showing materials used

The wire and the red terra siggalata gave the interesting colours here.

combustibles here include seaweed and ferns  - see below for results.  The terrasig pulled off in places leaving some white patches.

    

Random images from the big reveal day, with the results of some of the Raku at Ray's too.

Some were in foil and clay - some in only clay or only foil

a bit of a polish brings out all the colour 

Our new member was very pleased with the results of her first saggar firing

this little cat figure came out with some nice greens and black stripes.

Some lovely results in the raku firings too.

Clay Chat - a Cuppa and Cake

 Members are invited to come along on Sunday afternoon, 20 July for an extra meet up.  

Interested in joining? come along and have a chat.

a workshop with Niha Hukku

 Our members enjoyed a day in the warm studio at the @hazelhurstartscentre on Sunday 18 May.

Organised for our members the day provided great tips on the techniques needed to create decorated pots.

We found Niha Hukku to be a very capable and interesting presenter.  Her generosity with sharing her techniques and tool tips was appreciated by all who attended.

brushes are not her only tools

fascinating to see the fish come to life

Heritage Festival 2025

 Our members were very happy to once more combine with the Continuum Arts Society and put on a wonderful display titled Shire Creativity at the South Village Shopping Centre in Kirrawee.

On the Saturday we also held pottery wheel throwing demonstrations in the Brick Pit Museum where members of the public could then hop on the Heritage Festival vintage bus to travel to other venues.

Treasurer, Ann with her selection of freshly thrown vessels.

Our President, Margaret enjoyed the atmosphere

Our committee member, Anna showed that smaller is not necessarily easier with this mini wheel.  the children visiting were fascinated.

From functional to wonderful sculpture our display was very popular and complimented by the painting by members of Continuum Arts Society along side us.

Shoppers enjoyed browsing both displays and there was also a display from the students of the Miranda Public School.

Save the Date

 

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