Resources
Read, watch, listen and make with resources from across our year-round programming.
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Transferer Toolkit techniques: Slab Rolling
Slab rolling is an essential skill when working with clay. A slab is a flat piece of clay that forms the basis of most hand-building techniques.
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Transferer Toolkit techniques: Joining Clay
Joining clay together is important as pieces not secured properly will fall apart in the kiln or as they dry.
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Transferer Toolkit
The Transferer Toolkit is a digital guide to using clay to build oracy and critical thinking skills in schools.
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Transferer Toolkit techniques: Sgraffito
Sgraffito is a decorative technique where layers of coloured slip are applied to the surface of leather hard clay, then designs are etched into the surface of the clay, revealing the colour of the clay underneath.
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Transferer Toolkit techniques: Paper Resist
This decorating technique uses cut paper to create designs by blocking out sections of your piece, painting over them and then peeling them away to reveal a different colour underneath.
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Transferer Toolkit techniques: Coiling
Coiling is a basic technique of hand-building, using long ropes of clay to build up the walls of a pot.
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#ClayAtHome Draw To Focus
BCB Associate Artist Sarah Fraser takes us through a relaxed drawing activity using handmade inks and drawing tools.
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#ClayAtHome Press Moulded Bowl
Associate Artist Alice Thatcher demonstrates how to make a bowl using items from your home (even the clay).
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#ClayAtHome Isolation Tiles
Associate Artist Gabriella Rhodes demonstrates how to make tiles using objects found at home and in the garden.
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#ClayAtHome Growing Cultures
Inspired by ceramic penicillin culture vessels, Growing Cultures explores the connections between health, medicine and history.
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#ClayAtHome Cast of Thousands
For this video, we’re looking to the Cast of Thousands figures for inspiration in our Make Your Superhero activity.
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#ClayAtHome Play and Experiment
Play, experiment and explore with clay and different materials found inside and outside the home.
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