Workshop - Toni Losey April 20, 2024
Tucker's Pottery Supplies is proud to present a demonstration workshop with Toni Losey on Saturday, April 20, 2024! Space will be limited - secure your spot today! Payment must be submitted or your spot will not be held.
Date: Saturday, April 20, 2024
Time: 9:30am
Location: Tucker’s Pottery Supplies 15 W Pearce St. #7, Richmond Hill, Ontario
Cost: $95 + HST (includes lunch)
Toni Losey, born in the Canadian prairies, now lives and works as a full time ceramic artist in Halifax, Canada. She attended both The Alberta University of the Arts and The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design where she received her BFA, focus on Ceramics. She has received numerous national grants and bursaries and was the first Artist in Residence award recipient of Cluster Craft London.
Losey’s work is shown both nationally and internationally. She has exhibited at Collect in London, Salon Art + Design in New York, Design Miami, SOFA Chicago, Ceramic Art London and in 2021 had her first international solo show in London. She was named one of Ceramics Monthly Emerging Artists 2020, was short-listed for the Winifred Shantz Award 2020 and has been widely published in respected journals such as Ceramics Monthly and Ceramic Review.
Toni plans an interactive day with plenty of room for questions. The agenda will include:
- Throwing demonstration of the pieces to build a sculpture
- Assembling some pre-thrown forms to create the central form of her sculptures
- Artist talk/slide presentation
- Next layer of construction on her sculptures - adding appendages
- Adding colour (amaco velvet underglazes) and/or texture to the forms
- Discussion/demonstration of adding in nichrome wire/porcelain elements to the sculptures