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Meet Anabelle Stonehouse

Say hello to another of our fantastic tutors, Anabelle! We sat down with Anabelle to get all the ceramics goss… If you've taken a class with us at the Takeawei studio before, you might remember Anabelle - our studio manager and ceramics tutor extraordinaire! Anabelle is known for her friendly and encouraging teaching style, as well as her expert knowledge of firing and bringing your work to life in our studio kilns. She specialises in teaching the beginners and 6 week wheel course, and will soon be adding a new hand building sculptural vase workshop to her repertoire. Drawing on her practice in fine arts...

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Meet your Instructors

Meet your Instructors

Anabelle Stonehouse  Anabelle Stonehouse is a ceramic artist and has worked as a ceramics tutor since 2020. As the Takeawei studio manager Anabelle is also in charge of glazes, firing and generally all the behind the scenes work that gets your pieces table ready! Anabelle enjoys teaching hand building and throwing techniques, sharing her experience working with refined forms and decorative embellishments. Anabelle's students love her warm and encouraging teaching style.  Anabelle studied at ceramics at RMIT, has participated in several shows in Geelong and Melbourne, her work is stocked at the Geelong Gallery and she is currently undertaking a Masters in Fine Art at RMIT.   ...

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End of an Era / New Beginnings

End of an Era / New Beginnings

Thankyou so much for supporting Takeawei it has been a pleasure making pieces for you. If you have followed Takeawei for any amount of time you may have noticed us join the sale bandwagon recently and maybe been a little surprised?…it’s not something I take lightly or would normally do. I consider each piece a labour of love, handmade, limited in number and thankfully we have trouble keeping up with demand… but this coming year is a little different. Im downsizing Takeawei to take some much needed time out and focus on family. This means I will be closing the Gertrude street...

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Good Sport

Good Sport

Taking discarded Kimono and and breathing new life into them with contemporary cuts, Brietta transforms silks and indigo linens into bomber jackets and pretty slips to die for.
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The magic of Raku firing

The magic of Raku firing

Chela recently journeyed down the Great Ocean Road to Lorne to visit local potter Andrew Allen spending the afternoon raku firing a collection of pieces. 'There's nothing quite like seeing the process of what happens in the kiln firsthand. I'm still buzzing from the experience!' Chela says. 
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