Workshops
Zoë can lead clay and making workshops as an external facilitator for organisations. Below are structured workshops which they have already developed. For enquires on the commissioning of these workshops; commissioning of the development of a new workshop; and for estimate quotations please click here.
Letter Drawing with Clay Workshop
This workshop is an opportunity to play with the shape, texture and feeling of words alongside thinking about how these elements can (and can’t) inform shared meaning.
This is a low pressure workshop which intends to create space, time and access to material. Building confidence in making and being led by your own making processes.
Sometimes we’re trying to communicate things which we don’t have the words for. Drawing words can open up alternative spaces and ways of communicating what can’t be said.
Zoë leads in demonstrating a variety of methods which can be used to build shapes and structures with clay. From this, participants will be able to explore their own ways of working with this active material.
Letter Drawing with Clay is especially suited to those with no or little experience of using clay.
This specific workshop stipulates that participants can attend free of charge, or at a highly subsidised rate.
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[ALT TEXT: Several people sat around a table with newspaper, clay tools and portions of clay. Their hands are modelling, rolling and pinching bits of clay.]
[ALT TEXT: Several people sat around a table with newspaper, clay tools and portions of clay. Their hands are modelling, rolling and pinching bits of clay.]![Two separate clay word drawings, both pulling off the table with peaks and drops.]()
[ALT TEXT: Two separate clay word drawings, both pulling off the table with peaks and drops.]
[ALT TEXT: Two separate clay word drawings, both pulling off the table with peaks and drops.]
[ALT TEXT: A participant’s clay word drawing: stacks on stacks on stacks.]
[ALT TEXT: A participant’s clay word drawing: inflated and bubbled.]
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A person in a black jumper, using a clay tool to sculpt a long, winding piece of clay.]
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A participant’s clay word drawing: curving.]
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A person using a clay tool to define a curve on a thick piece of clay.]
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A participant’s clay word drawing: holding.]Letter Drawing with Clay, commisioned as part of the Race, Rights and Sovereignty programme (partnership between Glasgow School of Art’s Students’ Association and Glasgow School of Art Exhibitions), January 2023.
Photography credit: Zoë Charlery
2023