Welcome to the

Gold Coast Potters

In 1977, local craftspeople transformed the original Benowa Primary School building into a workshop and the Gold Coast Potters Association was born. Since then, we have grown into a well established not-for-profit that offers a friendly artistic community, market events, the Post Office Gallery gift shop and highly experienced teachers. Many former students have become professional potters and we regularly engage renowned artists to facilitate learning workshops.

Classes with Us

Pottery Classes for Beginners to Advanced Potters

Wheel Throwing

Learn and experience the hypnotic rhythm of wheel throwing clay. Many of our teachers will cover the basics of wheel throwing with some classes focusing exclusively on learning the wheel, while others integrate with hand-building and surface decoration.

Surface Decoration

There are so many ways to decorate ceramics and classes with us are a great way to learn different techniques and see what others are doing. Learn the basics of glazing and painting on pottery before delving into intermediate and advanced decoration skills.

Hand Building & Sculpture

Hand building encompasses multiple techniques which can be immediately applied to building your own functional ware or artistically used to create your own sculptural work. Our pottery classes teach methods like coil, slab and pinching to shape your clay form.

Why join a class with us?

Pottery Class Benefits

Quality Equipment

Our studios are complete with quality equipment including new wheels, slab rollers, extruders, moulds and a variety of glazes with 4 dedicated student kilns.