Bow Open Workshop: creating your own vessels using porcelain paper clay with Victoria Burgher
Wednesday 29th July 2026 , 6:00pm to 7:30pm
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.
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. She has a background in ceramics, but has also used sugar, bread, rubber, copper, indigo, salt and bagasse for her sculptures and installations. She recently completed a Techne-AHRC-funded practice-based PhD at the University of Westminster using porcelain to interrogate ideological whiteness as anti-racist praxis. She holds a Masters in Art & Politics from Goldsmiths College, University of London and lives and works in East London.
More about the Bow Open
Bow Open is Bow Arts’ annual exhibition showcasing new and innovative work produced by Bow Arts studio holders, artist educators, and guardians. This year, the exhibition is curated by young curators from Mile End Community Project and features the works of 25 artists exploring the theme of belonging. Find out more exhibition information here.
Access Information
The Bow Arts Trust courtyard room has step-free access throughout from street level, including to the accessible toilet, and is service animal friendly. This venue does not have a hearing loop system.
Accessible parking is not available on-site.
If you have any questions regarding accessibility at this venue or event, would like to make us aware of any access requirements that you have in advance of visiting, or would like this information in an alternate format including Easy Read, please email nunnery@bowarts.com or call 020 8980 7774 (Ext. 3)
Access requirements could include things like providing equipment, services or support (e.g. information in Easy Read, speech to text software, additional 1:1 support), adjusting workshop timings (e.g. more break times), adjustments to the event space (e.g. making sure you have a table near the entrance) or anything else you can think of!
Transport Information
Opening hours: Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm
Address: Bow Arts Trust, 183 Bow Road, London, E3 2SJ
Nearest stations: Bow Road (District and Hammersmith & City lines) is a 6-minute walk away, and Bow Church (DLR) is a 3-minute walk away.
Bus: 205, 25, 425, A8, D8, 108, 276, 488 and 8 all service the surrounding area.
Bike: Bicycle parking is located at Bow Church Station. The nearest Santander Cycles docking station is at Bow Church Station.
