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Our recent ceramic students glazing their body of work developed over 6-weeks! We can’t wait to see the firing results! ❤️‍🔥

To join our next round for beginners and intermediate potters, jump on the link in our bio! 💪🏼

❤️ Welcoming ceramic artist Ruby Yu-Lu Yeh to DOT!

Ruby’s ceramic practice explores the vessel as a site of quiet reflection. Working across wheel-throwing and hand-building, she creates forms that sit between function and sculpture, grounded in tradition while remaining open to experimentation.

Her work reflects an ongoing dialogue between her Taiwanese heritage and Australian upbringing.

Through curved silhouettes and considered surfaces, Ruby creates pieces that invite stillness, contemplation, and a sense of connection to memory.

Each vessel feels like both a personal offering and a shared space, holding presence in a way that is calm, generous, and quietly powerful.

Instagram:
www.yehceramics.com

Our next 6-week Hand Building ceramics course kicks off March 18 at our North Hobart studio! 🤲🏻 Designed for beginners and intermediates, over the course of 6-week you’ll learn all the core techniques to create a body of work from start to finish!

Wednesdays, 6–9pm | North Hobart
Bookings through our bio 🔗

It’s always hard on the nerves opening a kiln to exhibitions work, but not today 😅 We can’t wait to see ‘Malice, Tribology or The Joy of Shooting Back’ at in March!

FINAL CALL!! Our first 6-week ‘Form & Surface’ Ceramics course for 2026 kicks off next Wednesday night at 6pm. Designed for beginners and intermediates, over the course of 6-weeks studio artist will share her hand building knowledge and encourage students to explore surface decoration through texture, mark marking and glaze decoration.

Classes are kept small for plenty of 1:1 guidance. We’ve got a couple of seats left, so if you’ve been thinking of starting your year with a new skill and exploring your creative side, this is the sign!

Bookings in our bio link.

🪸 Texture play by one of our recent hand building students, Jen!

Next Wednesday our first intro to hand building course for 2026 kicks off! Over the course of 6-weeks students are introduced to the fundamentals of working with clay and encouraged to explore surface decoration and texture by bringing in local materials that speak to them.

While this course is geared for beginners, intermediate potters are also welcome to join to learn new skills and work at their own pace.

There’s a couple of seats left if you’re thinking of joining us. Link in bio 🔗

It’s all about the angles! Respect to for the full-body commitment 📸

We can’t wait to see the shots of this epic brass sideboard by 🙌🏻

Setting your creative intentions for the year? Our next 6-week ceramics course kicks off Wednesday 21 January in our North Hobart studio.

It’s a chance to slow down, make with your hands, and learn alongside others in a friendly, collaborative space. Led by , the course focuses on process over perfection, building confidence through doing, testing and trying things out.

Week six dives into glazing, so you’ll finish with a solid overview from form to finish.

There are a couple of seats left if you’d like to join us. Link in bio.

🔨 Calling all wood and metal folk!

DOT is opening up a couple of casual memberships for makers who know their way around a workshop and want the room (and the gear) to get things moving.

If you’re a Hobart-based designer-maker looking for flexible access, solid machinery, a supportive community and space to actually finish the ideas rattling around in your head, this is your cue.

Casual membership gives you 24–7 workshop access, induction, plus the freedom to work on your own schedule without the full studio commitment.

If that sounds like your kind of setup, head to the link in our bio for details and how to apply.