The Clay Centre is the mixed ceramics teaching and making space run by potter/teacher Alistair Gillies.

Trained in Ceramics at Dyfed College of Art in South Wales, Alistair worked in a number of South Wales potteries before being employed by West Wales Association for the Arts as a 'Potter in the Community' in Llandysul and this sparked an interest in teaching.

Alistair moved to Shropshire in 1983 to work as a supervisor running a training scheme workshop for the Ironbridge Gorge Museum Trust [as well as being a demonstrator of a number of crafts which included being filmed by Japanese television dipping candles.

Deciding to follow teaching through a more formal route Alistair upgraded his qualifications at Wolverhampton University with a BA [hons] in Printmaking and a Post Graduate teaching qualification and spent 17 years teaching Ceramics and Art in Shropshire schools. Feeling a need to return to his craft Alistair has opened The Clay Centre. This is a mixed teaching and making space situated in the small town of Broseley above the Ironbridge Gorge.

Alistair offers adult pottery classes, children's pottery parties and family holiday clay sessions.

Please contact him by email or phone if you are interested either the parties or classes