WORKSHOPS & MEMBERSHIPS

Let’s Get Muddy

Clay Cocoon
— Single Session

Let us take you on an experiential wonderland playing in the MUD. You will learn the three core hand building techniques and how to shape exactly what you please. Your very own mediclaytion 101.

  • Single 2.5 hour hand building workshop.

    For anyone, from clay virgins to seasoned vets.

  • $140 pp

  • Tuesday Morning 9:30am-12pm
    Tuesday Evening 6-8:30pm

    Wednesday Morning 9:30am-12pm

    Thurdsay Evening 6-8:30pm

    Sunday Morning 10-12:30pm

    • 2.5 hour tutored hand building workshop - choose whatever shapes you please!

    • MAYDE naturopathic tea provided

    • Tools and equipment provided

      • Unlimited clay - non tox

      • Use of underglaze for colour application - non tox

      • Skilled tutors

      • Firing and glazing of your shapes completed for you

Clay Group
— Courses & Memberships

Pack your Dunkaroo, tie your shoe, it’s claygroup time. This isn’t your typical clay course, friends. We’re not going to stifle your creativity by forcing a preconceived result.

  • Weekly hand building workshop access for those looking to get muddy on the reg. Whether you’re fresh to the mud, developing your practice, connecting to community, or looking to expand your honed skill we design these sessions around you.

    • Short course 4 weeks $440

    • Short course 9 weeks $880

    • Foundation weekly membership $88 p/w billed fortnightly

  • Tuesday Morning 9:30am-12pm
    Tuesday Evening 6-8:30pm

    Wednesday Morning 9:30am-12pm

    Thurdsay Evening 6-8:30pm

    Sunday Morning 10-12:30pm

    • 2.5 hour weekly session

    • Small group and one on one tutoring by skilled handbuilding artists

    • 5 kgs of clay per four sessions to shape whatever you please

    • Your choice of clay body 

    • Tools provided

    • Design advice on complicated forms 

    • Use of studio equipment

    • Recycled dotted journal to record your mud recipes

    • Firing of works included

    • Glaze and underglaze exploration

    • Bottomless MAYDE naturopathic tea

    • Dreamy tunes floating through your ear holes

Young Mud
– Monthly Sessions for little ones

Are your youngsters ready to get their hands dirty on the reg? Our Young Mud monthly memberships are a juicy burst of clay play with a touch of Steiner wisdom.

  • 2 hour monthly tutored hand building memberships for young hands (Ages 5-12 yrs)

  • $85 monthly 

  • The second or fourth Sunday of every month at 1-3pm

    • 2 hour monthly workshop 

    • Unlimited mud 

    • Use of underglaze and coloured glaze

    • Firing and glazing of shapes made.

Private Workshops

Muddy Private Workshops are for the event experiences done differently. Learning the art of presence with what is present in a connected setting. MUDDY takes your humans and offers their hands and minds an experiential wonderland of meditation with mud. Your community, your place or ours.

Less than zero experience needed. 

Forever your antidote to the disconnect

Think baby blessings, friendship hangs, team bonding, homecomings, christmas do’s.

  • 2.5-3 hour private hand building workshop.

    Anyone looking to change the channel on connection.

  • 2.5 hour (without food)
    $135pp 5+ pax

    • 2.5-3 hour handbuilding workshop

    • Unlimited mud

    • Tutored sesh by skilled handbuilding artists 

    • Clay demo 

    • Ability to shape anything you please 

    • Glazing and firing included 

    • Organic grazing boards (optional)

    • Mayde naturopathic tea

    • BYO optional

    • Byron based 

  • Email Alex over at hello@muddyclayplay.com with your desired date, number of people and a bit about your event and we’ll get back to you ASAP to get your event booked in.

Firing Services

Are you looking to bake your shapes my friend? You’ve come to the right place.

Steeve, our electric kiln is hungry for your artistry. We complete biscuit and glaze firings around the clock. With drop offs and collections on wednesdays and sundays 10-12pm

Artist Studio Hire

Are you a clay shaper currently commandeering your kitchen table with mud? Need some extra space and some industry grade tools and machines to streamline your practice? Well jeepers you’ve come to the right place my friend. 

Our thoughtfully designed habitat offers artists no longer requiring tutoring weekly space hire and discounted firing. Run don’t walk! 

  • Unguided Studio memberships for artists.

    This is for experienced artists familiar with their practice looking for a fully equipped habitat to shape in.

  • Drop in $55

    2 day weekly membership $75
    (20% off firing)

    3 day weekly membership $100
    (20% off firing) 

    • Drop in (7 days a week): making habitat, tools, studio equipment, drying racks

    • Memberships - making habitat, tools, studio equipment, drying racks, pigeonhole, 20% off firing, kitchen access 

      *materials not included 

  • Email Alex over at hello@muddyclayplay.com to apply for an Artist Membership.

“This is the first time I haven’t dreamt of work in as long as I can remember. I dreamt of clay”

Zoe, Melbourne