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    Placement trainee Alisha reflects on her time at The Turnpike
    Alisha Crook
    • Dec 7, 2021
    • 1 min

    Placement trainee Alisha reflects on her time at The Turnpike

    Working at the Turnpike has been a very unique experience. I’ve had a lot of fun while learning a lot of new skills. Everyone here has...
    THE MOTHER OF THE SEA, FROM LEIGH
    Charlotte Yeung
    • Nov 6, 2020
    • 2 min

    THE MOTHER OF THE SEA, FROM LEIGH

    Every year on April 14th, locals from Uto, Kumamoto prefecture in Japan, proudly gather around a shrine to pay their respects to the...
    The Grantchester Pottery: Mural Making
    The Turnpike Pottery
    • Aug 30, 2018
    • 2 min

    The Grantchester Pottery: Mural Making

    The Grantchester Pottery are a collective of artists who use a range of different materials to make art together, we were joined by Phil...
    The Turnpike Pottery: Exhibition Planning and Painting
    The Turnpike Pottery
    • Aug 28, 2018
    • 2 min

    The Turnpike Pottery: Exhibition Planning and Painting

    Lindsey showed us the plans for the gallery space, including a corridor walkway construction on entrance to the space and a blue pyramid...
    Paloma Proudfoot: Slip casting
    The Turnpike Pottery
    • Aug 24, 2018
    • 1 min

    Paloma Proudfoot: Slip casting

    It was great to meet Paloma Proudfoot today, who rolled up her sleeves and joined the Turnpike Pottery this Friday to teach us about...
    Urara Tsuchiya - The Potter’s Wheel and filling pots with little creatures
    The Turnpike Pottery
    • Aug 17, 2018
    • 2 min

    Urara Tsuchiya - The Potter’s Wheel and filling pots with little creatures

    Urara Tsuchiya, born in 1979 in Japan, works mainly with performance, video, and live events, sometimes incorporating soft sculpture,...
    Florence Peake: Getting messy
    The Turnpike Pottery
    • Aug 16, 2018
    • 2 min

    Florence Peake: Getting messy

    Florence Peake is a London-based artist who has been producing work since 1995. Through performance practice, Peake uses media such as:...
    Phoebe Collings-James: Creating our Spirit Animals with Clay
    The Turnpike Pottery
    • Aug 15, 2018
    • 2 min

    Phoebe Collings-James: Creating our Spirit Animals with Clay

    As the artists of The Turnpike Pottery, today’s session required us to think a little more abstract and introspectively, as our brilliant...
    Zoe Williams: Glazing
    The Turnpike Pottery
    • Aug 10, 2018
    • 1 min

    Zoe Williams: Glazing

    Zoe Williams joined The Turnpike Pottery to support us in glazing the clay which has been fired. We started off by looking at some of...
    Jonathan Baldock: The Extruder!
    The Turnpike Pottery
    • Aug 9, 2018
    • 1 min

    Jonathan Baldock: The Extruder!

    We had a fantastic session today with artist Jonathan Baldock. First he showed us some images of the exhibitions and artwork he has made....
    The Turnpike Pottery: Trip to Tate Liverpool
    The Turnpike Pottery
    • Aug 8, 2018
    • 1 min

    The Turnpike Pottery: Trip to Tate Liverpool

    We had an exciting time visiting Tate Liverpool, which is participating in the Liverpool Biennial (Beautiful world, where are you?) In...
    Sally Hackett: Mexican Tree of Life
    The Turnpike Pottery
    • Jul 31, 2018
    • 1 min

    Sally Hackett: Mexican Tree of Life

    Our second session introduced the work of artist Sally Hackett, who creates playful ceramic art through a socially engaged practice....
    Lindsey Mendick: A feast of fun
    The Turnpike Pottery
    • Jul 30, 2018
    • 1 min

    Lindsey Mendick: A feast of fun

    Today was our first session using clay. We all had a go at making our first clay objects - clay pots using the ‘coil’ technique. Some of...
    Meet the artist: Lindsey Mendick
    The Turnpike Pottery
    • Jul 21, 2018
    • 1 min

    Meet the artist: Lindsey Mendick

    Today was an opportunity for a group of local young people to meet artist Lindsey Mendick for the first time and to tell them more about...
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