Colour and Surface

Slips and underglazes are an accessible way to introduce decoration, texture, and colour to your pottery.

Prize Draw: Pots out of Pots!

We raised £1459 for Simon on the Streets through our Charity Prize Draw. Thank you!

CAMPAIGNSSunken StudioFebruary 17, 2022simon on the streets, fundraiser, prize draw, fundraising, events

Introducing Kim Schofield

Kimberley Schofield has recently taken responsibility for the Member’s Newsletter. She’s a member too and will be sharing stories, interviews and projects to support our members and celebrate what they do.

COMMUNITYSunken StudioFebruary 9, 2022Sunken StudioMembers, interiews, Kim Schofield, Smoke fired

Vases are not just for flowers…

What’s the difference between a vase and a bottle? All bottles can be vases, but can all vases be bottles? When does a bottle stop being a bottle? Does any of this matter: should the flowers determine what’s what?

COMMUNITYSunken StudioFebruary 3, 2022Bottles, vases, spring, making tubes

Texture tools: Roulettes

How we improvise with carrots and sticks, and how we’ve used low and high tech construction methods to make tools we then use to make pots, tiles, button prototypes, decorations and large scale slabs.

OUR PROCESSSunken StudioJanuary 20, 2022Sunken Studiotexture tools, roulettes, impressed decoration

Oliver's Pots

Oliver and the alchemist’s shed. Adapting to seasons.

COMMUNITYSunken StudioJanuary 6, 2022Studio Membership, glaze surgeries

It’s hotting up in here…

Mild, medium and hot, hot, hot. We’ve upgraded our heaters to infrared.

Studio LifeSunken StudioJanuary 6, 2022infrared, heaters, pottery life

Our Team: Introducing Milly Recci

We recently welcomed Milly Recci to our team through the Government’s Kickstart Scheme.

COMMUNITYSunken StudioNovember 27, 2021Milly Recci, kickstart scheme, dwp, studio support, studio life, people

There's more than one way to slip up

Trials and tribulations in the world of slip: analogue rudely meets digital on Butterley Street, Leeds.

Studio LifeSunken StudioNovember 26, 2021newsletter, slips, clay printer, duke makes

The Picture House Winter Fundraiser

We’re making a limited-edition decorative tile for sponsors of the restoration works at Hyde Park Picture House this Winter. These handmade tiles are inspired by the Picture House’s Marmo faience and donations will go towards its repair.

WHO WE WORK WITHSunken StudioNovember 18, 2021handmade tiles, hyde park picture house, fundraiser, marmo faience

In Pictures: Autumn Ceramics Festival

All things clay on Saturday: images from our Autumn Ceramics Festival, 6 November 2021.

EVENTSSunken StudioNovember 10, 2021ceramics festival, throwing off the hump, potter's market, The Potting Zoo

Ceramics Festival

Our winter festival is back! Drop in and say hello, discover what we do. Rebecca, Chris, Billy, Jo, Nova, Milly and many of our members will be available to talk all things clay! We’re hosting workshops, selling pots, and we’ll have a few e-course kits, and TubeClay ready to go.

Twelve months in the new studio. What’s kept us going?

Biscuits, clashing knitwear, lemon drop Martinis, gyoza, label makers, coffee, more biscuits, hummus, wheelbarrows, studio dogs that refuse to be studio dogs, open day sausages, and teams.

Studio LifeSunken StudioOctober 5, 2021newsletter, review

Balls

“Don’t worry about it. Give me an hour and I’ll come out of that bathroom with a tennis ball”… stories from pottery studio life, and the things they inspire.

Studio LifeSunken StudioOctober 5, 2021newsletter, fluorescent glazes, rare earth oxides, hacks, ideas

Systems, surprises and renegotiation

Clay news, features and events from Sunken Studio - our regular roundup. Join our newsletter to get this in your inbox.

PERSPECTIVESunken StudioOctober 2, 2021newsletter, exhibitions, studio life, processes, kiln shelves

Commissions: House of Fu

What goes into a bowl? Watch Chris making pots for our collaboration with House of Fu.

Summer Tasting Menu

Join us for our Pottery Tasting Menu, 18 August. Have a go on the Potter’s wheel, whittle spoons and make buttons. Places cost £30.

In Pictures: Pull Together

Pull Together was a participatory event supported with funding from Leeds Inspired, part of Leeds City Council. We invited residents of Leeds to learn how to pull clay handles. Here’s our practice run with the team.

EVENTSSunken StudioJuly 28, 2021Sunken StudioPull Together, pulling clay, our team

Tentative Steps

It’s workshop time. Discover last minute additions to our Summer calendar, and plan an Autumn of making and glazing. Hurrah… glaze workshops!

COMMUNITYSunken StudioJuly 19, 2021newsletter, autumn 2021

Autumn programme 2021

At last, glaze courses, creative courses, more of our favourite courses, and new member’s perk’s. Take a look Sunken Studio’s Autumn programme and book.