Grounded in ideas around universal languages, dream states, and the deep memories that objects hold, join multi-disciplinary artist Haydn Albrow as we build our own clay vessels to act as carriers and homes for our dreams.

For many people, objects have a special power to act as carriers for internal thoughts, memories, dreams, and feelings. They enable us to both archive and share fleeting or ephemeral memories and realise them in physical form.

It's this sentimental and living nature that objects hold which Haydn will home in on in this hand-building workshop, building on their ongoing research into hieroglyphics, early manuscripts of dreams, and different representations of universal languages through symbols, gestures, and characters. In a merging of their artistic practice with their pottery business Haydo’s Pots, we will be moulding pinch pots to act as carriers and homes for our dreams.

After moulding your pot, Haydn will encourage you to imagine your own abstract visual ‘language’ to communicate a dream or memory that you hold dear. Through a medley of glyphs, markings, shapes, grooves, and patterns, we will engrave visual representations of our memories and dreams into our pinch pots, creating individual treasures which pay homage to the memories and dreams we collect throughout our lives that make us who we are.

After the workshop, Haydn will fire and glaze your creations, so they are ready for you to collect from the Nunnery Gallery after the workshop.

All materials provided – no experience with clay is required!