Slab Built Pottery/Sculpture and

Coil Built Pottery

There are two main hand building techniques for

making 3D ceramic forms (pots). These are the slab pot and the coil pot techniques.

Since ancient times these techniques have been used

to create large, imaginative and exciting vessels or pots and sculptures.

Until quite recently they have usually been functional but now they are made as decorative works of art.

Many of the potters and artists who make these pots have become well known and their work is collected and displayed in galleries, much the same as paintings and sculpture.

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