Stoneware + terracotta
Functional bowls, mugs, cups, and vessels, plus the garden-irrigation ollas now anchoring the shop.
I make the work,
and I teach it.
Bodhi Swan — Brisbane ceramic artist. Six years at the wheel, 200+ pottery classes taught to 600+ students. The pieces in the shop and the classes at the studio come out of the same practice.
Started ceramics six years ago through Isabell at the Logan Artists Association — one class and it stuck. Four years in, I began teaching wheel throwing, and haven't stopped. Now running classes at Brisbane Ceramics in Milton and The Ceramic Studio in Indooroopilly.
The making and the teaching feed each other. Years of repetition at the wheel built a real feel for form, balance, and how clay responds. Teaching forces you to explain every step — which makes the work sharper, not slower.
The work is mostly stoneware — bowls, mugs, cups, and vessels — plus a line of unglazed terracotta ollas for garden irrigation. Every piece is one-of-a-kind, wheel-thrown, glazed, and fired by hand.
Artist statement
“I make objects that should outlive the person using them. Ceramics are infinitely reusable — a bowl, a cup, an olla — they don’t break down into microplastic, they don’t end up in landfill after a year. Every piece is a small argument against disposable stuff.”
Studio backgroundPractice Teaching Process
200+ classes, 600+ students
Two years teaching beginner-friendly wheel throwing at Milton and Indooroopilly. Same hands that made the shop.
Repetition and refinement
Making the same forms again and again, paying attention to small changes and letting the work evolve.
Two ways in
Take home a piece, or learn to throw one.
Every piece starts at the wheel in the same studio the classes run from.
