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Angie Sayer

Disciplines

Ceramics modeling, sculpture, moulding, throwing, slabbing, coiling, decorating, glazing, firing

Workshops for Ages

Under fives, Infants, Juniors, Secondary, 16+, Adults, adults with disabilities

Workshops Offered

Gloucester Art and Crafts 1 week Adult course Summer 2008

Explore the possibilities of using clay to create a workbook of ideas and examples of 3-D pieces relevant for Key stages 1,2, &3 and GCSE. Get to grips with coiling, slabbing, pinching, moulding, decorating, glazing and firing linked to contemporary ceramicists.

Design and make a puzzle jug. Visit Exhibition of contemporary slipware jugs made by leading UK practitioners at Long Barn Gallery, Winchcombe, Gloucestershire.

Monmouthshire Decorative and Fine Art Society Caldicot Junior school 2007

Poems- The Owl and the Pussycat-With the use of clay explore the tactile qualities of creating a 3-D model of the owl and the pussycat to display in the school. Experience materials that are changed after heating. Roll and slab the clay together to form a unique design. Use a variety of stamps to make patterns and textures in the clay. Coloured slips provided to give special brightness. These can then be fired in a kiln to create lasting quality. Links with Key stages 1 & 2.

The New Brewery Arts children’s holiday workshop Summer 2008
Fantastic animals

Design and make your own futuristic animal. Think of the most wacky design for an animal and make it in clay. Pinch, roll and slab the clay together to forma your unique design. Use a variety of stamps and clay gun to make patterns and textures in the clay. Coloured slips provided to give special brightness. These can then be fired in a kiln to create lasting quality. Linked with visit to Danish contemporary ceramics Exhibition at New Brewery Arts, Cirencester.

Artist Statement

Angie Sayer resident Ceramicist, maker and tutor at New Brewery Arts, Cirencester. My work is thrown and changed to create flame forms and daily tableware including earthenware
Angie Sayer Statement 2008
• New Brewery Arts in February 2008, appointed as Ceramicist in residence providing workshops and courses to both children and adults including methods of pinching, coiling slabbing and throwing related to contemporary practitioners and 20th century ceramicists - Bernard Leach, Michael Cardew and Ray Finch – and visiting related exhibitions.
• Series of children’s courses with both their parents and on their own designing and making families of animals, linked to relevant visits. Structures, materials, self adornment, have also been designed and made in varying groups up to 16 years. The containers were both hand built and on the potters wheel.
• Jewellery making North Cerney Primary school in collaboration with production of a play in the theatre space at New Brewery Arts.
• Tutored Gloucester Arts and Crafts Summer School, vocational and teachers. Hand building related to contemporary practitioners and Key Stages. Linked to visiting Leach Pottery ST. Ives, John Leach Muchelney Pottery.
• Attended Throwing course John Huggins Ruardean Pottery, massive garden pots up to 35 pounds in weight.
• Tutored course at Minchinhampton Primary school with children designing and making large figures of Noah and his wife and animals going into the Ark for permanent wall frieze in the school.
• 2007 Curated sixth formers exhibition of paintings and sculpture at Great Atlantic Gallery, Monmouth.
• Tutored Stroke group- adults with impaired mental and physical disabilities.
• 2003-2006 At Tackroom Gallery, Monmouth, groups of sixth formers visited for talks on contemporary and twentieth century artists work linked to GCSE and A Level Art projects. They experienced throwing on the wheel.
• 1999-2003 Teaching Art & Design Technology full time, Chepstow.
• 1998-1982 Teaching ceramics for over 25 years and for many years in Cambridge.