Ceramic Construction Workshop (Evenings and Weekend)

Participants will get hands-on experience with using the different types of clays available and their properties including crank, terracotta, porcelain, earthenware and stoneware. Techniques of construction will include: rolling, coiling and slab-building for use in making vessels, sculptural forms or both. Participants will also get a chance to operate the pottery wheel. The finished clay forms will first be bone dried and then bisque fired ready for stage 2 of the process when the now hard ceramic pieces are ready to take surface treatment in the Glazing Workshop. Please bring sketch books with some visual ideas.

Accommodation: We have private rooms available for €30 per night in our residential building. Please book you tickets to the workshop on Eventbrite and then email us to see if we have a room available to: info@leitrimsculpturecentre.ie.

Herbie McCann is from County Down in the North of Ireland and holds a BA in contemporary and applied Art from the Ulster University of Belfast. McCann has over 25 years of working in a wide variety of materials such as fibreglass, wood, metal, stone and especially ceramics. He currently lives in North Leitrim and is a registered freelance technician and mentor for Ceramics and clay-related work with the Leitrim Sculpture Centre