Sculpture Next Steps - LOCO Centre - Adult Learning

LOCO Centre, Netherfield

Date	7 November - 12 December 2025
Sessions	Fridays: 12:30pm - 2:30pm
No. sessions	6
Venue	LOCO Centre, Netherfield View venue details View on Google Maps
For ages	19+
Group size	5 - 12
Cost	FREE - £48

About this course

Sculpture Next Steps is a course that will help expand your skills and show you how you can confidently create large scale sculptures. You will be introduced to a variety of materials that sculptors use to create their work. Using air dry clay and other materials such as wood and natural materials you will then create your own large scale sculpture(s). Over the course of the 5 weeks, you will learn about various materials and tools sculptors use. You will also learn how to successfully design and develop ideas to make your own large scale sculptures using air dry clay, other materials and the appropriate tools.

By the end of the course, you will: Build confidence using clay techniques. Build confidence using tools and equipment for clay. Create your very own large scale sculpture(s). Build confidence in working with others to help integrate into a work environment. Understand costing your work for selling purposes.

What you will need to bring to the course:

A basic sketchbook/notepad or paper to draw onto, a pen, pencil, rubber, sharpener, clay tools (Amazon sell packs of tools from as little as £5.99) 4 packs of air dry clay (any colour is fine). You will be advised each week what to bring.

Booking your place and fee information

If you receive certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course, please visit our funding page for further information.

Residency in England

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must be living in England permanently and live outside of the devolved areas listed below or live within the East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) devolved area (Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire).

Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
Greater London
Greater Manchester
Liverpool City Region
Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland
Tees Valley
West of England
West Midlands
West Yorkshire

Residency Eligibility – other criteria

If you are living in the UK on a visa we will require evidence of this in order to be funded for the course, you can upload this evidence when you apply for the course. (completion of a questionnaire will be required).

Some exceptions may apply for example

Your visa expiry date must be beyond the end of your course
Asylum seekers must have lived in the UK for 6 months or longer while their claim is being considered by the Home Office
You are receiving local authority support under section 23C or section 23CA of the Children Act 1989 or the Care Act 2014

Any learner who is not funded full cost fees would apply to these courses.

West Yorkshire