Workshops
Spirit Animal
Saturday 20 June — Sculpt Your Spirit Animal
With the amazing @madi.luschwitz.artist
What’s Your Spirit Animal?
Join the incredibly talented Madi Luschwitz for a soulful, creative full-day workshop exploring the idea of the spirit animal through clay.
Madi is known for her intuitive, expressive approach to making — her work is playful yet deeply considered, full of character, warmth and quiet story.
Drawing on a strong connection to nature, animals and inner symbolism, she has a beautiful way of guiding people to create from instinct rather than perfection. Her teaching style is generous, calming and encouraging, making this workshop accessible for beginners while still rich and inspiring for experienced makers.
Throughout the day, Madi will gently lead you through reflection, sketching and hands-on clay work to uncover and bring to life your own spirit animal. You’ll explore form, texture and expression, learning how small details can give personality and meaning to your piece.
Expect a relaxed, nurturing atmosphere, time to slow down, connect, and create something deeply personal. You’ll leave with a one-of-a-kind clay spirit animal and a sense of grounding, joy and creative confidence.
A soulful, hands-on sculpting day where you’ll bring your inner creature to life.
Cost: $175
Wall Sculpture
Saturday 25 July— Hand-Build a Clay Wall Sculpture with Lea Durie
Join the incredible Lea Durie from Mud Dept for a hands-on workshop exploring clay as a sculptural, expressive medium. This workshop is all about feeling the clay, trusting your hands, and allowing the work to unfold naturally.
You’ll create a wall-hung clay piece rich in texture, marks and movement — raw, earthy and beautifully imperfect.
What’s Involved
In this immersive hand-building workshop, Lea will guide you through the process of creating a one-of-a-kind clay wall piece. You’ll explore clay as a sculptural and expressive material, with a focus on:
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Building form for wall-hung work
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Creating texture, movement and depth
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Mark-making techniques using hands, tools and found objects
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Embracing raw, earthy surfaces and beautiful imperfections using slips, foraged clay, rocks and other found materials
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Understanding balance, strength and hanging methods
What’s Included
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All clay and materials
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Use of specialist tools and textural elements
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Expert guidance from Lea Durie throughout the workshop
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Firing of your completed wall piece
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Glazing or surface finish chosen to suit the work
No prior experience required — beginners and experienced makers are equally welcome.
Cost: $210
Patterns of Nature
Saturday 18 & Sunday 19 September — Patterns of Nature
A 2-day nerikomi immersion with the extraordinary @townsendjosephine
Step into the wild side of pattern-making with our Nerikomi Workshop — where colour, clay, and a little bit of chaos collide.
Guided by the incredible Josephine Townsend, you’ll dive hands-first into the hypnotic world of hand-built pattern work.
Forget polite pottery: this is clay sliced, stacked, pressed, stretched, revealed. Lines twist, colours ripple, and every cut exposes a secret hiding inside the block. It’s addictive, it’s rebellious, and it’s ridiculously satisfying.
Josephine’s work is all about touch — curves that lure you in, surfaces that beg to be held, patterns that echo roots, rivers, flames and flickers in nature. She brings that same raw energy into the studio, inviting you to follow the flow, embrace the unexpected, and make pieces that feel alive.
If you’re ready to experiment, break a few rules, and walk away with work that turns heads and starts conversations… this one’s for you.
Come play with clay the unruly way. Nerikomi, but make it bold.
Dive deep into colour, pattern and form in this rare extended workshop.
Cost: $395
Wheel Throwing Workshops
Ever watched someone throw on the wheel and thought, “I want in on that muddy madness”?
Our 2 hour Wheel Throwing Workshops are designed for absolute beginners, curious creatives, and anyone craving a little spin therapy. You’ll get your hands on real clay, your foot on the pedal, and your mind off the everyday.
We’re talking raw clay, real results, and the kind of satisfaction you can’t buy off a shelf. We’ll guide you just enough to keep your bowl from turning into a flying saucer—and we’ll even glaze and fire your creations when you're done.
Cost: $85 for 2 hours
Includes clay and firing and glazing of up to 2 pieces. If you wish to have additional pieces fired and glazed the cost is $15 per piece.
Firing & Glazing Process: Your pieces will be fired and glazed after the workshop. Once your pottery is bisqued (in approximately two to three weeks), we will glaze your creations for you. The entire process will take about 8 weeks from start to finish, and completed pieces can be picked up or mailed for an additional cost.
Pieces not collected within 4 weeks of glazing will be recycled.
You must be 16 years or older to attend, and class sizes are strictly limited.
Wheel classes require a minimum of 2 people to run.
Mondays and Wednesdays at 10am
The MUD Club - After School for Muddies
Welcome to The MUD Club for Kids – where little hands make big magic.
This isn't just another after-school activity — it's a full-blown clay adventure. At The MUD Club, kids aged 5 to 15 get their hands dirty, their minds buzzing, and their imaginations fired up. Sculpt gnomes, build monsters, pinch pots, and make masterpieces — all in a space that’s all about creativity, curiosity, and clay-covered fingers.
WHEN & WHERE
MUD Ceramics Studio – 23 Wason street, Milton
Mondays and Tuesdays | 3:30–4:30pm
Wheel fun on Wednesdays at 3:30
COST
$45 per person
or $390 for a 10-session pass (save a bit, make a lot)
WHAT’S INCLUDED
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Clay
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Sculpting tools
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Firing + glazing for 2 standard pieces
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All the mud-soaked fun you can handle
Firing + glazing takes time. We bisque your pieces in 2–3 weeks, then glaze and fire again. Expect around 8 weeks before they’re ready to collect.
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Want to fire more than 2 pieces? It’s $15 each for extras.
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Unclaimed pieces after 4 weeks post-glazing? We recycle them — back into the wild world of clay.
Ready to join the mud madness?
Book your spot here
October School Holidays MUD Club
Get Muddy These School Holidays
Looking for something wildly creative to keep the kids busy these holidays? Welcome to our Summer School Holiday Program — a series of hands-on, joy-filled workshops designed to ignite imaginations and spark a love for clay.
From Grizzly Bear Plates to Mermaids, Fish Teapots to Platypus, every session is packed with fun, fine-motor skill building, and muddy masterpieces.
DETAILS
Ages: 5 – 15 years
$45 per person per 1 hour session
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Clay, sculpting tools, paints & brushes
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Firing and glazing of two (2) standard pieces
(Extra pieces can be finished for $10 each)
Firing Timeline:
We bisque your creations in 2–3 weeks, glaze and fire them, and have them ready for pickup (or postage) in about 8 weeks.
Pieces not collected within 4 weeks after glazing will be recycled.
Kids under 11 must be accompanied by a paying adult — which means you get to play with clay too!
Book Your Workshop:
Make a Grizzly Bear
Make a Mermaid
Make a Fish Teapot
Let your kids get their hands dirty and their creativity flowing — it’s school holiday fun that sticks (to everything).
MUD Social Sessions
Mud Social – a casual clay hang for anyone who loves to make.
Whether you're a total newbie or a seasoned ceramicist, Mud Social is your time to unwind, get your hands dirty, and bring your clay dreams to life. These relaxed 2 hour sessions are open to anyone aged 16+ — no pressure, no rules, just good vibes and great mud.
Bring your own project or let us guide you through something new. Sculpt, build, carve, glaze — it’s your session, your way.
COST
$85 per 2 hour session
What's included
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Clay
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Sculpting tools
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Firing + glazing for 2 standard pieces
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Good chats and creative flow
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Extra pieces? Just $15 each to fire and glaze
THE FINISHING TOUCHES
We’ll take care of the firing and glazing after your session. Bisque firing takes around 2–3 weeks, and the full process (including glazing) takes about 8 weeks total. You can pick up your pieces once they’re done, or we can post them for an additional cost.
Please note: Pieces not collected within 4 weeks after glazing will be recycled.
Class sizes are small and spots are limited — so grab your spot now.
Mondays at 1pm
Tuesdays at 10am, 1pm and 5:30
Thursdays at 10am and 1pm
Botanical Marks - booked out
Saturday 9th May — Botanical Marks
with Cathy Franzi
Join our Sgraffito masterclass with the wonderful @cathy_franzi
Learn to carve Australian flora into clay with nuance, intention and beauty.
In this workshop you’ll learn to ‘draw’ on clay using a rich range of textural imagery techniques — carving, sgraffito, incising, impressing, slip and ink inlay, stencils, sponge stamping, and slip trailing.
You’ll practice each technique on slab tiles while exploring mark-making and composition from multiple angles, building confidence and curiosity as you go.
Perfect for beginners drawn to the materiality of clay, and equally valuable for experienced makers wanting to broaden and refine their surface-decoration skills.
A beautifully hands-on, creative deep dive into the endless possibilities of clay.
Dr Cathy Franzi is an acclaimed ceramic artist whose work explores the connection between Australian flora, environmental knowledge, and clay. An experienced tutor,
Her work is held in major public collections both nationally and internationally, and in 2025 she was awarded the Lanyon Art Prize. Cathy is represented by Sabbia Gallery in Sydney.
A remarkable artist, a generous teacher, and an inspiring guide for this workshop.
What's included:
Clay and underglaze
Firing of your piece
Piss Pot Tuesdays
Piss Pot Tuesdays— Sip, Sculpt, and Let Loose
Looking for a midweek pick-me-up with a twist (and maybe a twist-top)?
Piss Pot Tuesdays is your ticket to start of week mayhem, muddy hands, and memorable creations. It’s pottery, but with attitude.
Gather your crew — family, mates, your work gang, or that friend who’s always wanted to try something “arty” — and head to Mud Ceramics for an evening of clay-fuelled chaos and good times.
Cost: $85 per person
What’s Included:
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A sneaky glass of bubbly
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All materials and sculpting tools
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Firing + glazing of 2 standard pieces per person
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Optional add-ons: Food and drinks to keep the vibes flowing
No Experience? No Worries.
First timer or total clay addict — everyone’s welcome. We’ll guide you through the mud while you laugh, sip, and sculpt your way to handmade treasures (or hilarious lumpy blobs you’ll love anyway).
The Fine Print:
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Firing and glazing takes around 8 weeks total (bisque in 2–3 weeks, glaze after that)
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Want to keep extra masterpieces? Just $15 per additional piece
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Unclaimed pieces after 4 weeks post-glazing? They return to the mud gods (aka we recycle them)
Ready to Piss Pot with us?
Get Muddy Together
Mud. People. Magic
Family fun. Corporate chaos. Or just an excuse to get muddy.
Got a crew? We’ve got clay.
Our 2-hour group clay workshops are made for people who want to switch off, get their hands dirty and make something real — no experience, no pressure, no perfection required.
Perfect for:
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Family gatherings (kids, parents, grandparents – everyone gets muddy)
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Corporate teams who’d rather bond over clay than trust falls
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Friends, birthdays, hens, bucks or any group that just wants to play
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Anyone who needs to unplug and use their hands again
You’ll hand-build with clay — pinching, shaping, carving, imprinting — guided just enough to get you going, with plenty of room to do your own thing. Expect laughter, unexpected masterpieces, a few wonky beauties and very dirty hands.
This is not a paint-and-sip.
This is slow, tactile, grounding and a little bit feral.
What’s included
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2 hours of guided clay making
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All clay, tools and materials
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Firing and glazing of two selected pieces
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A relaxed, welcoming space where mistakes are encouraged
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Clothes you don’t mind messing up
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Your people
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Drinks and nibbles
To book call 0406866634 or email theteam@mudceramics.com.au
Become a MUD Maker
Love Getting Muddy? Make It Official.
This isn’t your average pottery club.
This is for the clay-streaked renegades. The ones who live for the squish, the spin, the glorious mess of it all. The ones who crave the grind of grit under their fingernails and the buzz of creating something real with their bare hands.
At Mud Ceramics, becoming a Mud Maker isn’t just a membership—it’s a calling. You get to make your beautiful disasters and breakthroughs, and the freedom to create, destroy, and start again.
No judgment. Just clay, fire, and the relentless pursuit of form.
Whether you're sculpting stillness or spinning chaos on the wheel, this is your space. Your people. Your mud.
It’s not a class. It’s a commitment.
To your practice. Your process. Your passion.
Ready to make more than just pots?
Become a Mud Maker.
We'll keep the kiln hot.
Join our Mud Ceramics Membership and get everything you need to fully immerse yourself in the world of clay — whether you’re building a serious practice or just want unlimited access to the mess and magic.
$690 per person
Includes:
10 x 2 hour sessions
Unlimited clay
Access to multiple clay bodies
Unlimited firing & glazing
Pit and raku firing opportunities
Member pricing for all unique workshops
Ready to commit to your craft (and save while you’re at it)?
Book your Membership here
Your mud, your way — all in.
Please read our full terms and conditions before booking
Important things to note:
Firing & Glazing Process:
You can take your pieces with you at the end of your workshop, however they will not be fired or glazed.
The price of the workshop, unless otherwise noted, includes firing and glazing for two (2) standard size pieces. If you wish to have additional pieces fired and glazed the cost is $10 per piece.
Your pieces will be fired and glazed after the workshop. Once your pottery is bisqued (in approximately two to three weeks), we will glaze your creations for you. The entire process will take about 8 weeks from start to finish, and completed pieces can be picked up or mailed for an additional cost.
Items not collected within 4 weeks, once we have contacted you ( bisqued or glazed) will go into our $2 basket. proceeds go to the Little Food Pantry