Clay bead making for our autumn exhibition
Led by Ruth Elizabeth Jones

Saturday 14 September
11am-2pm
Drop-in workshop
At Cample

This workshop is free and open to anyone who would like to help make clay beads that will be included in Chiara Camoni’s exhibition this autumn at Cample
All ages welcome
No previous experience of clay work is necessary

Strings of clay and terracotta beads, in olive greens , light blues and warm colours, which lie over a greater mass of deep brown coloured beads.

Join us for this drop-in workshop, led by Moniaive-based ceramist Ruth Elizabeth Jones. You can join us any time between 11am and 2pm.

This autumn we will host an exhibition of work by Italian artist Chiara Camoni who has invited us to make a new string of beads to be included in the exhibition as part of one of her monumental Sister sculptures.

We would love to have you join Ruth and members of our team to help prepare clay beads, which will be included alongside strings of terracotta beads made in Chiara’s studio with members of her own local community in northern Tuscany in Italy.

You can find out more about Chiara’s forthcoming exhibition at CAMPLE LINE – entitled murmur, buzz, hiss and rub – here. 

We are very grateful for the support of Ruth Elizabeth Jones, who will lead the workshop and help guide the bead production. 

Ruth’s own affinity with clay has been lifelong. After studying in the Midlands in the 1980s, she established studios firstly in Derby and then in rural Southwest Scotland where she continues to live and work.

Ruth’s ceramic practice centres on the vessel form. She builds clay vessels using coil-building techniques that date back to matriarchal Neolithic pottery cultures, and her work makes ongoing reference to the female ceramic record.

Materials and refreshments will be provided!

Chains of colourful clay and terracotta beads which tumble across wooden floorboards away from the central art piece.
The interior of an industrial-looking building, where a trailing art piece sweeps across the floor. Segments of layered, beaded material can be seen laid out in lines and curves in the background. There are also two wide cylindrical frames in the space, with beach-towel sized delicate fabric panels decorated with faint, golden-brown imagery.