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Head of studio Rob Cloughey and technician and tutor Locke Unhold run a first rate facility at Otago Polytechnic's Dunedin School of Art (+).
Approx. 23 July - My desk a week and a half in.  Left to right: Two tubs of glaze.  Mould making plaster casts and drain pattern.  Small rustic pinch pot.  Surface experiments.  Salt fired double pinch pot.  Rugged pinch pot (failure to do roller).  Butter pats engobe piece.  Sea anemone.  Two flax impressions and lancewood impression.  Test tiles for glazing. 
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6 August - Desk is looking rather messy due to a number of recent arrivals from the kiln.  Several rejects positioned on the upper shelf are not shown.
15 August - Stains in the back and a new block of CB3, an "easy throwing, versatile midfire clay," in the front.
5 September - Piece needing to be glazed are building up.  In the foreground is a second block of CB3.  Under the plastic is a large thrown pot, aiming in the direction of a tea pot, plus a lid.  A couple of saggar fired pieces are at the left.
2 October - Attempting to shift directions to more sculptural works.
9 October - The fish (not visible under the desk).
23 October - The road is drying and a new slab pot finished.
Early November - Starting to clean desk (+).
9 November - Ready for assessment.
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