Kiln Klub events are designed to welcome people of all backgrounds and abilities, serve as a platform for experimental sculpture, and invite participants to explore The Pipe Factory’s heritage through clay and ceramic processes.
Check our what’s on page for upcoming sessions.
2025
Kiln Klub is an open-access ceramic studio offering drop-in sessions and a supportive membership programme. As part of its commitment to community and creative access, Kiln Klub hosts free monthly public talks and workshops led by guest artists.
Our 2025/2026 guest artists and collaborators include Listen Gallery, Josie Ko, Emily Speed, Scottish Working Class Network, Rae-Yen Song, Jack Y Tan and Sarah Rose.
Each artist invites you to experiment with ceramics, through different approaches of sound, reading, performance and play!
More details will be shared for each workshop but here’s a little taste of what’s coming up:
Listen Gallery beckons us to imagine ‘Mythical Beings Through Sonic Worlds’ in a workshop exploring our inner soundscapes and their creatures - drawing on myths of the Arab world such as the Shadhavar.
Josie Ko’s workshop will expand on the ideas behind her practice and work ‘The Chimney Princess’ featured currently in the British Ceramics Biennale.
Jack Ky Tan, encourages us to ‘read through clay’ in an intimate reading group where we’ll be creating & discussing various writings exploring indigenous making and materiality alongside his text ‘Kiln Gods & Kitchen Gods’.
Rae-Yen Song invites us to get closer to our microscopic ancestors ~ feeling our way through Song’s upcoming Tramway exhibition, we’ll be making mud instruments to bless our more-than-human kin.
Please check our what's on page for more up to date information. All sessions are free & open to the public, though ticketed due to the limited capacity at our current studio.
Our 2025/26 resident artists is Hussein Mitha. Their work involves researching Glasgow’s 'Caryatids'. The Caryatids” is a creative nonfiction, genre-hybrid work involving art history, photography, ceramics, sculpture, prose-poetry and anti-colonial research. They will be collaborating with selected photographers, workshop participants, sculptors, artists, architects, and historians and will involve engaging in architectural and socio-historical analysis of caryatids and atlases. You can follow their research here. The residency outcomes will be a publication and exhibition - hosted in the newly refurbished pipe factory in autumn 2026.
For more information please contact kilnklub@strangefield.org