Sun Nov 8th 1-4pm. Dopamine Vessels - 4 Weeks Of Playful Pots With Bonnie Hislop

Build your own hand built vessel, decorated with dramatic sculptural elements and colourful flare! Bonnie Hislop will guide participants in coil techniques, sharing tips and tricks to make a statement piece that pops!
create a centre piece for your home, dopamine vessels, playful pots with Bonnie Hislop

Sun 1-4pm Nov 8th and 15th to build. break for pot to dry and be fired. 29th and 6th dec to paint. pot will be ready to be collected before xmas. 

Included:
3kg of clay to build your vessel. 2 firings, underglaze, clear glaze. 

About Bonnie - 

Bonnie Hislop is an artist focusing on ceramics, particularly handbuilding and ceramic illustration. Grounded in technical skill, her practice has evolved from creating illustrative ceramic planters to large scale sculptural work. Bonnie uses her forms to critically engage with the world around her and document the human experience. Working from her Meanjin home studio, Bonnie meticulously hand crafts her forms through an involved and often uncertain process inherent in working with clay. She unites bright colours and satirical concepts to engage her audience in a dialogue with the physical world around them. Her work intersects traditional representations of ceramics with a craft aesthetic to create a contemporary interpretation of the ceramic medium. The artwork doesn’t take itself too seriously yet is able to capture personal experiences universal to the human condition. Her practice aims to encapsulate universal experiences of frustration, angst, grief, emotional fatigue as well as feminine strength, intimacy and desire. The performative, brightly coloured ceramics forge an existence through joy and curiosity. In 2022 she and photographer Melanie Hinds developed an ongoing collaborative series which puts Hislop in the frame with the artwork, extending the messaging of the ceramic works. This collaboration seeks to subvert perceptions on the classic ‘artist portrait’ and expectations of femininity. 

Bonnie regularly facilitates ceramic classes, produces public programs and exhibits her work around Australia. In 2024 she won the 3D category at the Ipswich Art Awards and was a finalist in the North Queensland Ceramic Awards.

Photo credit: 
Help I'm bored again and better luck next year are by Charlotte Tegan

Tiny Wins Grow Big Wings and Lovely weather  - Bonnie Hislop

I Need Some Space. Welcome To The Party. Actually The Is My First Rodeo. Intrepid Traveller. Knock Knock, Who's There, Love, Love Who. Never Worked A Day In My Life. - Melanie Hinds