Studio The artist Alexandros Douras imagined Korkodilos: a ceramic studio in the centre of Athens, a little different from what the word “studio” brings to mind.
Plants, smells, daylight, clean wood. The space is part of the making: warm, light, built for focus and experiment.
The table At its heart, one big shared table, like the ones we eat and talk around. Here we make: different people side by side, watching each other’s work.
Around it, benches, sinks and everything you need. Upstairs, a second, freer studio for parallel classes, new materials and large-scale work.
Korkodilos is in constant conversation with design and art: in its graphics, its space, its classes, its masterclasses and its collaborations.
Clay We get to know the material. We discover its properties. We explore its possibilities. We learn to react quickly to its malleable nature. We watch it transform. We draw the design. We make the sketch real. We turn our imagination into work.
We learn through play. Play brings us together. It creates intimacy and carries an element of surprise. Korkodilos sets goals from the start and teaches each student to reach them calmly and with focus. During class we mix the material with art history and our own references. For Korkodilos, ceramics is a slow-paced process.
Tools All the tools are here: brushes, torches, banding wheels, airbrushes, an extruder, clays, glazes, colours. We fire in our own kiln, so whatever you make, you take home fired and glazed.
