Bow Open Workshop: creating your own vessels using porcelain paper clay with Victoria Burgher

About this event

, to Learn how to imprint, mould, and construct with porcelain paper clay to create your very own handmade vessels and tealight holders, speculating on ideas around home, place and fragility. All materials provided. Image credit: Victoria Burgher Artist and educator Victoria Burgher, whose work Gaza (2025) is also in the Bow Open 2026 exhibition, will guide you through a range of simple construction techniques and methods to use when working with porcelain paper clay, speculating on ideas around home, place and fragility. All participants will be able to experiment with using plaster press moulds, fabrics, and natural found materials – such as leaves and branches – to imprint surface textures onto individual vessels and containers. You are welcome to bring along your own objects and patterns to use when imprinting your textures too! After the workshop, Victoria will fire the vessels and tealight holders, with all creations available to collect from the Nunnery Gallery from the following week. All materials are provided – no experience needed! This event will be held in the courtyard room at Bow Arts Trust, 183 Bow Road, London E3 2SJ. £7 for concessions More about Victoria Burgher Victoria Burgher is an artist and educator whose sculptural practice, rooted in craft processes, focuses on a conceptual use of colonial commodities to visually re-examine whitewashed narratives of empire.