Five-minute reactions to the news that College Management propose to close the Ceramics Department at the end of this term

Hard to discern everything (click on the photo to enlarge) but you may be able to make out, among other things, fists, a gun, boxing gloves, a pile of pooh and (well done, Liz) two hairy bollocks.

Gigantic Pinch Pot With big lips and nose kept indoors used as fruit bowl rather then flower put so the lips won't freez Used stone clay

Kat's bread bin for midget slices of bread. Made from slabbed earthenware clay and glazed in Turquoise with wavy pattern masked using latex resist then painted with Tin White glaze.

Unconscious Lanscapes series

A large Unconscious Landscape glazed in Tin White.

The pot version glazed in Egyptian Blue.

Black clay dishes

Thrown in black clay, glazed in turquoise + transparent.

Second one didn't fare so well in the kiln - badly made and of uneven thickness, I think.

Black clay plate

Black clay, thrown. Glazed in 'transparent black' (Madeleine's glaze). Fired to earthenware.

Cut pot

An experiment in using porcelain wedged with iron filings. Wanted a bit of sparkle, or some impact of the colour of iron. 

None of this happened. Handbuilt form. Cut into vertically to create sort of gills. Glazed inside with Egyptian blue and outside with matting blue. Was a bit thick - didn't highlight all the cuts as much as cover them. The iron filings may have helped further flux the glaze causing it to run down more.