Our Team & Teachers
Evan Davis
he/him - Languages spoken: English
Experience: Over 30 years of experience Wheel throwing, glaze making & Handbuilding.
Book me for: Learning how to throw larger forms more efficiently, as well as incorporating hand & wheel throwing techniques to produce beautiful platters and vessels.
Tamara Hall
She/Her - Languages spoken: English, Spanish (Nivel intermedio)
Experience: Bachelor of Fine Arts (ceramics) at NAS, working with clay since 2015.
Book me for: Handbuilding both functional and sculptural pieces on a larger scale, demystifying glaze technology/fun glazing and surface decoration ideas and techniques.
Josh Wallace
he/him - Languages spoken: English
Experience: BFA industrial design. Have studied ceramics under the tutelage of Joan Takayama-Ogawa as part of the degree. Have been teaching ceramics for 6 years. Specialising in wheel throwing, handbuilding, slip casting, plaster mould making.
Book me for: understanding wheel and clay mechanics, handbuilding techniques, work critique.
Caitlyn King
She/Her - Languages spoken: English
Experience: pottery instructor since 2022, practising since 2017
Book me for: Correcting your throwing technique so that you can produce the same shape/size vessel over and over (production pottery)
Jemini Pankhania
She/Her - Languages spoken: English
Experience: Registered art therapist. Has been a pottery instructor since 2020, practising since 2016. Her most recent collection, "Home," reflects on her birth country, the UK, her motherland India, and her current home, Australia. It delves into the juxtaposition of identities—what she loves, what she misses, and what she’s proud of.
Book me for: Exploring storytelling through your own arts practice. She loves to teach wheel throwing vases and tableware with bright, bold motifs.
Kristina Guderjahn
She/her Languages - spoken: English
Experience: Advanced Diploma in Ceramics
Book me for: Hybrid wheel-throwing and handbuilding techniques and creative surface decoration ideas.
Eddie Sayers
He/Him - Languages spoken: English
Experience: Self taught ceramic artist with a science background.
Book me for: Learning to make your own glazes, understanding the studio glazes and perfecting your glaze application.
Lily Taufiq-Bailey
She/Her - Languages spoken: English
Experience: Specialised in Ceramics at SCA, Practising artist in handbuilding, wheelthrowing and slipcasting since 2014. Teaching Since 2023.
Book me for:throwing fundamentals, trimming, hand-building sculpture, slip casting fundamentals & plaster mould-making for slip casting.
Ej Son
They/He/She - Languages spoken: English, Korean
Experience: A pottery instructor since 2019. I’ve worked in numerous studios in Sydney from Pottery shed, Makerspace, Kilnit, BondiClay, Pine street creative, Usyd and of course Clayground.
Book me for: Basic throwing fundamentals, experimenting with form (incl, teapots!) and glaze questions.
Elise Gellweiler
She/Her - Languages spoken: English
Experience: 5 years in both the wheel throwing and Handbuilding disciplines.
Book me for: throwing or handbuilding small to medium vases and other ornamental vessels.