Make a Paper Mache ‘Story’ Bowl
Taught by Pamela Woods
Pamela heads up Laneway Learning Team in Sydney, Australia. You will find her at many of the classes, fussing about like a mother hen. A writer for TV and an academic, she has run BA courses in the UK at Middlesex University and taught MA students at other universities and colleges, such as Central St Martins and Birkbeck University in London. She has also worked as a script editor and story editor as well as writer for major UK broadcasters and indies.
In all cultures, ceramic vases and bowls have always been used to commemorate a wedding, an anniversary or any significant event. The ancient Greeks depicted epic battles, Keats wrote an ode to a urn and now an artist like Grayson Perry explores his past on the surface of a vase. We are inviting you to create a story on a bowl, use images and type, quotes from your favourite novel or fragments of a poem… but on paper mache, not porcelain.
Does paper mache stirs up memories of claggy, thick, mushy impossible stuff that goes mouldy? It just doesn’t have to be like that! There’s a better way to construct paper bowls and this class will show you how. Make and decorate a bowl while you learn this super easy and quick mache technique.
This class will take you through the technique of constructing these bowls, which are versatile and don’t take too long to whip up once you get the hang of it!
Please note: Bring along a printout of a favorite line from a poem or book which you can use to decorate your bowl or hand-paint your lettering.
