Ceramics and mixed media online course with Adeline Contreras

A course for fibre artists who've always been quietly curious about ceramics.

Clay meets textile. Finally.

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The conversation between a fired ceramic surface and the thread that holds it - that's where my work lives.

- Adeline Contreras

Not ceramics. Ceramics for the textile mind.

 

You know how to read a material. How to feel its resistance, follow its grain, work with what it gives you. This course invites you to bring that instinct into contact with clay - and discover what happens when two slow materials speak to each other.

This isn't a pottery class. It's an eight-module online course that teaches clay hand-building, surface decoration, and firing as a foundation for hybrid, mixed-media sculpture - where clay becomes the partner of fibre, thread, and cloth rather than a medium in isolation.

You'll learn to build ceramic forms specifically designed to receive thread. To prepare textiles using natural dyeing, burial, and environmental processes. And then to bring the two materials together into finished work - wall-based, freestanding, wrapped, woven through - in a language that is entirely your own.

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Where clay meets fibre.
A new kind of course - for makers who already speak the language of thread, and are ready to learn clay's.
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Hand-build ceramic forms in slab, coil, and press mould - every piece made with fibre assembly already in mind.

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Prepare and transform textiles using natural dyes, earth pigments, burial, and environmental process. 

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Decorate and fire ceramic surfaces using engobes, copper oxide, and ash - before and after the kiln.

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Assemble hybrid sculpture that brings ceramic and fibre into genuine conversation - not decoration, but dialogue.

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Work with crochet as a structural and expressive tool - different threads, tensions, and scales alongside clay.

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Finish two complete hybrid works - one textile-led, one crochet-led  build your practice from.

Made for you if...

You work with fibre.

You've always wondered about clay.


This course was built specifically for textile and fibre artists who feel the pull of ceramics but haven't known how or where to start. You don't need any prior experience with clay. You just need your eye, your instinct, and your curiosity about materials.

Everything you already know about reading a surface, feeling resistance, working slowly and with intention - it translates directly.

  • You're a weaver, embroiderer, textile artist, or fibre sculptor curious about adding a harder material to your practice.

  • You're drawn to mixed-media and sculptural work - pieces that occupy space rather than lie flat.

  • You care about material process - the slow, intentional kind - more than quick results.

  • You're interested in natural materials, environmental processes, and work that carries marks of time.

  • You want to learn from an artist who has spent years in genuine material dialogue - not just technique demonstration.
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Adeline Contreras

Adeline Contreras
French mixed-media artist working at the intersection of ceramics, textile, and sculptural installation.

From her studio in France, Adeline Contreras makes work that refuses easy categorisation. Her sculptures combine fired clay with cloth, thread, and crochet - forms that are simultaneously rigid and soft, permanent and perishable, architectural and intimate. She is as likely to bury a textile in the earth for weeks as she is to fire a ceramic piece twice, trusting in both cases that time and process will do what deliberate technique cannot.

Adeline came to this hybrid practice through years of working separately in both ceramics and textile, before finding that the most interesting questions arose at the boundary between them. What does a fired surface ask of thread? How does a cloth change when it has to carry weight? What emerges when two materials - one that holds its marks forever, one that slowly releases them - are bound together into a single form?

Her practice is built on the conviction that materials are not passive. Clay pushes back. Cloth shifts. Crochet holds tension differently depending on the thread. For Adeline, this resistance is not a problem to be solved - it is where the work begins. Her studio is full of experiments, iterations, and pieces in various stages of transformation. This course takes you inside that process.

I don't decide in advance what a piece will be. I decide what conversation to start - and then I listen.
- Adeline Contreras

Your Take Two experience includes:
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Direct interaction with Adeline for up to eight weeks.

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Hours of cinematic video lessons.

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Unlimited learning with lifetime access.

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A worldwide community of artists.

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Have your questions answered in two live Q&As.

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Comprehensive workbooks to reinforce your learning.

… plus the community and resources to keep the conversation flowing long after the course ends.

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