Katie and Julie practice ceramics in a community work space with a mandate to offer something back to the local community.
They wanted to give people an opportunity to explore creativity through sharing the clay they love so much themselves. They use the process of making things out of clay as an opportunity for local adults of our diverse community to interact cross-culturally in a creative space.
Many people living in the informal settlement type communities do not have the luxury or resources to explore their artistic heritage and will never know if they have a love for ceramics.
HBSPI offers the space to people of all social and financial standing to explore ceramics. For some it will become a new skill they can take further, whilst for others they will just dabble and enjoy the social aspect of the scheme. Our dream is to up skill people to become ceramicists in their own right. The t-bag rests help to practice and refine a new skill while they also hand build their own projects expressing their individuality and have pieces they can take home for themselves.