Ceramics Studio
Wysing Arts Centre

In response to feedback, Wysing updated the opening hours for their Ceramics Studio, encouraging new memberships from budding ceramicists. There were not many pre-existing photos of people using the space, so Lucy arranged a photoshoot with studio member Rob and staff member Fiona, who has many years experience as a ceramicist, to showcase them both throwing, glazing and enjoying the space.

ID: Rob is throwing a circular clay pot on a wheel. The photo is taken over his right shoulder. The sides of his hands are gently shaping the clay’s surface. Rob is wearing a bright red jumpsuit. Photo: Lucy Rose Shaftain-Fenner.
ID: Fiona smiles for a photo whilst holding up a ceramic bowl with a pouring spout, resting on top of a wooden throwing batt, which is a round wooden disk that can be removed from the pottery wheel. She is wearing a green apron and a white shirt with
ID: Fiona is throwing a bowl on a potters’ wheel. The photo is taken over her left shoulder. Her hands are squeezing the clay gently to create the bowl shape. She is wearing a green apron and a white shirt with detailed dark and light green and red l
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Lucy also took photography of the space itself, without any people in the frame, showcasing the detailed murals painted on the Ceramics Studio’s walls, the kilns, the many buckets of glazes on its shelves and the colourful red and blue throwing wheels.

ID: A wide shot of two electric pottery wheels in Wysing’s Ceramics Studio. The wheel to the left is red and the one on the right is blue. There is a bowl of water in-between the two wheels as well as a few balls of clay and a thrown bowl on a wooden
ID: A close-up of a pottery wheel, with a freshly thrown ceramic bowl with a pouring spout, still on a wooden batt. The metal wheelhead is clean. Various wooden tools, a sponge and a wire for undercutting are laid next to the pottery wheel. Photo: Lu
ID: A wide shot of the Ceramics Studio, showing some of the colourful murals painted on its walls. On the left are lots of small plastic red and blue shelves and on the right is a large purple kiln. Photo: Lucy Rose Shaftain-Fenner.
ID: A wide shot of the Ceramics Studio, showing some of the colourful murals painted on its walls. There are shelves with buckets of glaze and ingredients for making glazes. Some buckets are small and some are larger. Some also have labels on the fro
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