Save the date

SOUP IN A BOWL, 15 September 11.00am-3.00pm, Sturt Pottery
The ceramic studio will be open to the public to visit and purchase handmade ceramic Bowls, in a fundraising event hosted by Friends of Sturt and Sturt Pottery Students. All bowls purchased come with a serving of piping hot Soup!

Summer School 2020

You can now register for Sturt Summer School 2020. With 24 adult courses and 5 one-day children’s courses, there is something on offer for everyone. 

Many of our favourite tutors will return offering popular classes, including: Charotte Thodey – Still Life Painting and Richard Raffan – Wood Turning. A full list of courses and course details are available on the Sturt website where you can also enrol securely. Alternatively, visit the Gallery to enrol in person. The Gallery is open seven days a week from 10.00am-5.00pm.

Five one-day children’s classes: Mixed Media Collage, Painting, Sewing Puppet Play, Ceramics.  $95 per day or $440 for the week. Morning tea, lunch and all materials are included. The children’s classes run concurrently with the adult classes allowing both parent and child to have a creative week.

Sturt also offers accommodation and meal packages as well as lunches for day students.

Sturt is an endorsed provider of professional development by the NSW Education Standards Authority, which makes Summer School a great opportunity for educators to expand their skills in an exciting and enjoyable environment.

Short Courses

Sturt’s next weekend of short courses will take place on Saturday 21 & Sunday 22 September, 9.30am - 4.30pm

• Knitting with Wire – Angharad Rixon
• Contemporary Stitching – Cath Derksema
• The Ceramic Canvas – Tania Rollond

Register online

Current exhibition

Cadence ~ natural rhythm – until 22 September

The curators have selected 15 artists for their innovative use of traditional mediums, crafting work that is fresh and original. These are artists working to their own beat, confident in their individual cadence – singing their own song to their own rhythm.

Through ceramics, furniture, jewellery, painting, printmaking, sculpture, textiles and woodcarving, this exhibition focuses on individual artists and their practice - the path and tempo to which each artist creates, adding insight into their routine and method.

Participating artists: Tania Rollond, Yvette Marie Tziallas, Lou Harriss, Chelsea Lemon, Roberto Gnecchi Ruscone, Virginia Sprague, Jane Frances Reilly, Julia Flanagan, China de La Vega, Penelope McManus, Phoebe Middleton, Bella Gnecchi Ruscone, Imogen Keen, Cath Derksema and Lucy Turner.

Upcoming exhibition

Sentient - New work by Rachel Wood - 29 September to 17 November

The natural landscape of the Southern Highlands inspires a stunning new exhibition of ceramic vessels by international artist in residence, Rachel Wood.

In awe and overwhelmed by the Australian bush on her first residency at Sturt Craft Centre in 2013, English ceramicist,  Rachel Wood, has returned to Sturt this year to make new work on site especially for her solo exhibition, Sentient, to be presented in the Sturt gallery.

Rachel Wood is known for her expressive, visceral, calm and considered vessels, each brought to life with lively and complex surfaces. The unique personal touch of human spirit and physicality of the core material are key to Rachel's practical and intellectual ethos. Every fingerprint, tool mark, rip and join, traces the journey of her making with clay, just as every footstep in the Australian bush of the Southern Highlands infuses the images and feelings in her head and heart.

A multi-award winning ceramic artist based in the rural midlands of England, Rachel has exhibited her work widely including exhibitions in England, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Brussels and Italy.

The exhibition opening will take place on Sunday 29 September at 11.00am. The exhibition will be opened by special guest, Southern Highlands based ceramic artist, Elizabeth Charles.

Artists talk – Meet Rachel Wood in the Gallery on Saturday 28 September from 10.30am-11.30am.

Full details of all Sturt courses, exhibitions, residency programmes and events can be found on our website www.sturt.nsw.edu.au or to make a booking or enrol, call Sturt Shop on +61 2 4860 2083 or email shop@sturt.nsw.edu.au.

Mark Viner
Head of Sturt