Amfora studio

Get your hands dirty

Classes & workshops

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Amfora studio

Get your hands dirty

Classes & workshops

Join the mailing list

The Winter program is now live, with something for beginners, intermediates, hand-builders or wheel-obsessed. Find your passion and get your hands dirty, today.

View our Winter program

Featured Workshops

Dirty Friday

Intro to wheel throwing.
Bring friends. Get messy!

· 6pm, Fri June 12
· 2 hours

· Wine & snacks included

Book Now

Mud Club - Primary or Secondary

Mud Club -
Primary or Secondary

School Holiday sessions.
Choose a cohort & theme.

· Start 30 June or 2 July
· 2 x 90 min sessions
· Materials & firing included

· Start 30 June or 2 July
· 2 x 90 min sessions
· Materials and firing included

Book Now

Mud Club -
Primary or Secondary

School Holiday sessions.
Choose a cohort & theme.

· Start 30 June or 2 July
· 2 x 90 min sessions
· Materials & firing included

Book Now

Amfora is…

A place for curious minds, creative hearts, and those who want a messy escape.

A new ceramics community in the Abbotsford Convent.

Offering wheel and hand building term classes, workshops, private events, and studio membership.

What's on offer

Learn at Amfora

We offer four and eight week courses in wheel throwing or hand building, for beginners and intermediates, to help you find your passion.

Get started with a Dirty Friday introductory session, or bring your kids to Mud Club during the school holidays.

There's always something good just around the corner.

We offer four and eight week courses in wheel throwing or hand building, for beginners and intermediates.

Get started with a Dirty Friday introductory session, or bring your kids to Mud Club during the school holidays.

There's always something good just around the corner.

We offer four and eight week courses in wheel throwing or hand building, for beginners and intermediates, to help you find your passion.

Get started with a Dirty Friday introductory session, or bring your kids to Mud Club during the school holidays.

There's always something good just around the corner.

Classes & workshops

Membership

Access to studio equipment, clay and materials, and a firing service, on your own schedule.

Ideal for people who want to develop a practice, be part of a community, or just touch mud.

Get the opportunity to sell your work at our studio market.

Access to studio equipment, clay and materials, and a firing service, on your own schedule.

Ideal for people who want to develop a practice, be part of a community, or just touch mud.

Get the opportunity to sell your work at our studio market.

Explore membership

No Experience Needed

We teach beginners everything from centring clay to dealing with some inevitable heartbreaks. Just have fun, enjoy the process, and be in the moment.

Weekly Sessions

Our term courses run weekly — 4 weeks will get you started, 8 weeks will get you hooked. Or try a one-off workshop to see if it's for you.

The Convent

You’re making pottery inside one of Melbourne’s great creative communities. A beautiful space to discover something new.

You’re making pottery inside one of Melbourne’s great creative communities.
A beautiful space to discover something new.

The Convent

You’re making pottery inside one of Melbourne’s great creative communities.
A beautiful space to discover something new.

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Amfora Studio

MG2 Mercator Building
1 St Heliers St
Abbotsford Convent Art Precinct

Wurundjeri Country

Abbotsford VIC 3067

AUSTRALIA

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We respectfully acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin nation, the traditional custodians of the land where Amfora is located. We pay our respects to their elders, past and present, and to all First Nations peoples.