Kiln construction with Martin Brockman at London Sculpture Workshop

Clayground Collective invites people to engage with all things clay.  Last summer as part of our current project, Clay Cargo, we worked on kiln construction and kiln firing as a focus for community celebration.  Core participants were members of Crisis Art Programme.  We were hosted by London Sculpture Workshop based at the Bermondsey Project, an arts hub in South London.

Specialist kiln artist, Martin Brockman, taught us how to make kilns from paper, from shopping trolleys, how to suspend a kiln and transport kilns in wheelbarrows.  We made a brick-built updraft kiln, decorated by participants with oxides. Clayground’s Duncan Hooson demonstrated a raku kiln.

The creation of a “field of fire” became a focus for the public celebration to mark a final chapter in The Bermondsey Project.

Film-maker, Luke Glover, made this and two other films posted below.  These are of workshops aboard the Clay Cargo boat and about an archaeology session with Mike Webber at the Skip Garden, King’s Cross.

A film made by Matt Edwards of our visit to Middleport Pottery, Stoke, with poet Rachel Long and artist David Binns, can be seen by clicking here.

A conversation between surgical educator, Roger Kneebone, and Clayground’s Duncan Hooson, can be seen by clicking here.