Cermaic Winter Residency with John BAuer

Our recommended residency is 2 month, 3 if you can, but we can work within a 1 month period if that is the maximum time you have. We just need to scale your expectations to the time allocated and the first 2 weeks would be super intense.

The artist would stay in one of our rooms at our guest house. Each room is private and has its own bathroom, kitchen, lounge, patio, garden and dining are all communual. The guest house is centraly situated in the Southern Suburbs in Cape Town and is close to public transport routes. We are within walking distance of shops and restuarants.

This is specifically a ceramic residency so all clay artists. We have 3 studio spaces that John works from as a prolific artists. All three of these spaces are available. John does mostly handwork and we do have wheel that is used by residency artists and mould making. There are also three kilns. John is availble almost daily to give assistance and guidance.

The guest house studio is a lovely tranquil studio that has a loarg glass table that we work at. It would be shared with the other art residents, it has an outside roofed annex with a wheel and shelving, John's two other studio are busy creative spaces where you might be working alone or with other artists. This is a lively practising studio with work always on the go.

The Winter Residency is R8 000 a week and includes Your first bag of clay A serviced, private room with en-suite at the John Bauer Guest House, which offers self-catering facilities. Use of John’s various studios, multiple kilns & test firings, any firing where a kiln is already going to be used and you sharig space. Standard clear glaze. Personalised time with John discussing your work and creative inspiration. Tours to our top galleries and art studios.

Introductions to a network of world-class ceramists for engagement & collaboration opportunities. Walks, beach time, and even free diving adventures to forage for materials and ideas. A final exhibition at the Montebello Design Centre to celebrate your residency. Food, clay and colour glazes would be for your own expense.

During your stay you would spend some time assisting in the gallery and meeting clients. You would be expected to clean your working space at the end of each day, but your work can stay in place suitable wrapped. We will have an introductary dinner mid way through at which we will ask you to present your work to that point. An optional oppotunity for you to present a workshop of your own design and that you will organise yoursef (with some assistance) A final exhibition of the work you have created which will be held in a gallery space, you will be asked to give an outline of your body of work.

Application information send an email to Gail at info@thepotterystudio.co.za include: The dates that you would ideally like to visit (within that period) and length of stay. A paragraph on what you would hope to achieve during your residency. An outline of the number of pieces you think you would like to make and the average size of the pieces you would want to make. The topic of one workshop you would feel happy to lead or let us know if you do not wish to take up this option.