Porcelain Workshop: Hand-painted Ceramics

In this hands-on two-day workshop, you’ll create exquisite porcelain objects adorned with hand-painted colours. Learn how to work with fine white porcelain clay to shape and model your own unique forms, whether figurative or vessel-based, with plenty of inspiration provided throughout the class.

You’ll also craft your own watercolour underglazes, which will transform your porcelain pieces with pastel colours. Using a variety of tools, you'll explore different techniques for modelling, building and adding textures to personalize your pieces, ensuring each one reflects your individual vision.

Selected pieces will be fired in the NAS kilns after the workshop. Please note, it may take up to four weeks after your course ends for works to be available for collection. We will notify you when they are ready for pick up.

* The course fee incorporates the cost for materials such as clay.

* NAS Short Courses are open to students of ages 16 years and over. The NAS Art Club is open to students from ages 15 years and over. 

* What to bring? Please refer to the list of required materials in the Art Materials field below. 

Sassy Park is a Sydney based artist interested in the history of ceramics, objects and ideas. The medium of clay with its embedded transformative nature of fragility and strength becomes a metaphor for themes and debates of the everyday. Her work plays with the accepted uses of domestic ceramics and genres, including pots and figurative works, providing a contemporary take on what ceramics are and what they can say.

Sassy Park graduated from the National Art School with a Masters in Ceramics in 2018. Previous degrees include Bachelor of Visual Arts and Post-graduate Diploma in painting from Sydney College of the Arts. A previous recipient of the NSW Travelling Art Scholarship, she has more recently won the Muswellbrook Art Prize for ceramics and numerous runner-up awards, including as a finalist in the Wynne Prize in 2024. She has recently exhibited at the Art Gallery of Ballarat with her solo exhibition, ‘I have confidence in sunshine’. Last year Sassy was awarded the Keramikkünstlerhaus residency in Germany. Her work appears in the 2023 Australian book on ceramics, Earth and Fire by Paper Boat Press.

Students must supply their own art materials, please refer to the list below.

• Reference material eg photos, drawings etc
• A4 sketch pad or artist’s diary
• Drawing materials
• Towel and protective clothes (old shirt or apron) 
• Any ceramics tools that you may already have 
• All clay and other materials are provided 
• We recommend students bring a P2 KN95 disposable mask 
• Enclosed footwear is essential in all studios on campus.