What’s Next For?: Dublin’s new community pottery studio already has 70 members, according to the artist who founded it
Síofra Murdock of Throwing Shapes: ‘You need so much patience with ceramics. It draws in really sound people’
When she moved to the city, 10 years ago, she was in and out of different artist studios but “never really felt I had my foot in the creative community in Dublin”.
“It’s very therapeutic, very mindful – there are no phones in the studio – and because people are working with their hands it grounds you nicely. People are coming in after a day’s work and making pieces. It’s a hobbyist studio, I suppose, but we do have professional practitioners in the studio as well.”Throwing Shapes has eight teachers and three studio staff. Some members are now starting to teach, too. “That way it becomes its own ecosystem,” says Murdock. “It’s good to share knowledge.
Older locals in particular are enthusiastic “about seeing a craft back on the road”, says Murdock, who has noticed people stopping to watch potters at work through the studio’s big windows.Throwing Shapes already has 70 members. Murdock hopes to reach 100 by the end of the summer, then take a breath “to try and understand the flow of the studio and not overwhelm ourselves”. Studio membership requires a degree of knowledge.
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