Rise and Shine

New week long-ish pottery making intensives coming soon…

WORKSHOPS AND COURSESSunken StudioMarch 13, 2021summer school, potter's life, staycation, clay intensive

Reacquaint, Restart, Reset

An outline of our plans for reopening in Spring 2021.

WORKSHOPS AND COURSESSunken StudioMarch 2, 2021roadmap, opening times, spring 2021

Celebrating Leeds’ Female Pioneering Spirit

Opal x Joanne Crawford present a new collaboration celebrating 9 incredible female owned businesses in Leeds.

COMMUNITYSunken StudioFebruary 18, 2021IWD2021, opal video, joanne crawford, choosetochallenge

Sunken x House of Fu

We’re making dishes and bowls for House of Fu.

COLLABORATIONSSunken StudioFebruary 15, 2021house of fu, pottery commissions, wheel thrown pottery, pottery production, ramen bowls, gyoza plates, dipping bowls, katsu dish

Introducing TubeClay by Sunken Studio

Pay for the parts you use when you use them. TubeClay.. take risks with clay. Cut your losses at any stage.

COMMUNITYSunken StudioFebruary 10, 2021TubeClay, accessibility, clay, materials, buy clay

Community Helping Communities

Thank you for helping use raise £1150 for Simon on the Streets.

EVENTSSunken StudioFebruary 6, 2021fundraiser, The Great Charity Pot Sale, community

Super Seconds Saturday!

It’s our big spring clean! Pots, pots and more pots… fancy homing our missteps and misfits?

EVENTSSunken StudioFebruary 4, 2021seconds, sale, super second saturday, samples

Hello, hello, hello

Where’s the tomato? Tomato ain’t great on plates…

EVENTSSunken StudioJanuary 30, 2021The Great Charity Pot Sale, fundraiser, charity, Pourers

The Great Charity Pot Sale

Potters helping to raise funds for local Charities. First event Saturday 30 January 2021.

EVENTSSunken StudioJanuary 23, 2021The Great Charity Pot Sale, Pourers, iron saturates, simon on the streets

Members make: Neil’s pot

Big, bold and beautiful.

COMMUNITYSunken StudioDecember 10, 2020resist, handbuiling, large scale ceramics

Christmas 2020

Get your e-courses and pots in time for Christmas - last dispatch day, last collection day and pottery sale!

EVENTSSunken StudioDecember 9, 2020pottery shop, click and collect, e-courses, e-tasters, gift ideas, last orders 2020, christmas 2020

Members make: Victoria and Finch

Introducing studio member and designer maker Victoria and Finch.

COMMUNITYSunken StudioDecember 3, 2020Sunken StudioStudio Membership, Victoria and Finch, Bowl, Lidded Jars, wheel thrown pottery

Our bountiful balloon!

Jump onboard our biggest pottery raffle to date!

Standard WareSunken StudioNovember 28, 2020pottery raffle, christmas, prizes, studio pottery

Making pots at home: Amy

Boom! Your clay journey starts here, or there, or wherever you like. Our e-tasters have started.

WORKSHOPS AND COURSESSunken StudioNovember 24, 2020e-courses, e-taster, slab building, handbuiling, pottery making kits

eeeeeeeh... we've launched some new e-courses!

Start making coil pots, pinch pots or slab pots at home.

COMMUNITYSunken StudioNovember 20, 2020e-courses, pottery making courses, pottery making kits, thinkific, coil building, slab building, pinch pots, e-taster, bloopers

Winter Updates: Courses and Memberships

Our 2021 calendar, new studio based courses, e-courses and firing services.

COMMUNITYSunken StudioNovember 7, 2020e-courses, pottery making courses, online pottery courses, firing services

Our New Neighbours

We have new neighbours. Just next door are Duke Makes. They are digital, we’re analogue.

COMMUNITYSunken StudioOctober 18, 2020Sunken Studioduke makes, duke studios, sheaf street, Butterley Street, digital fabrication, maker space

Studio Life: Our Big Move

We have moved our pottery. We’re still in the South Bank area of Leeds but our space is bigger and brighter.

OUR VISION AND VALUESSunken StudioOctober 7, 2020Butterly Street, maker space, Studio Life, duke makes, studio pottery

Autumn Courses: New Dates Added

Fancy joining pottery making courses in October or November? We’ve created a few extra places!

SHORT COURSESSunken StudioSeptember 16, 2020Sunken Studiowheel thrown pottery, online pottery courses, throwing courses, evening classes, weekend classes

What's in the box?

We now sell pottery making e-courses. Supported courses come with a kit, unsupported just the course.

WORKSHOPS AND COURSESSunken StudioJuly 24, 2020e-courses, online pottery courses, pottery making kits