This course provides the opportunity for students to further develop and enhance ideas via participation in the practical activities and debates of the ceramic studio. It provides the context in which students continue to explore personally relevant ideas and goals through an investigation of a range of ceramic materials, procedures and approaches. In particular, this course highlights relationships between form and surface, introducing and critiquing processes that are involved in the development of painterly, printed and digitally generated surfaces on clay. The intention and meaning of surface elaboration and image development is examined with reference to both traditional and contemporary approaches to work in clay.