Engraving, modeling and ceramics

Description

Lucie Masvigner, a ceramist, and Edith Mercier, a printmaker, are using the festival's invitation as an opportunity to embark on a mini transdisciplinary research residency combining ceramics and engraving. It’s the beginning of a long-term project that will continue the following year at Errobiko Festibala. In the mornings, both artists will focus on research; in the afternoons, they will offer public initiation workshops.

Built around the theme "We don’t play at the table!", these workshops are an invitation to play with tableware, games, game tables, and table games—blending ceramics, engraving, graphic design, and maybe even cooking or music in another time.

Program

Monday, July 14 – Afternoon
Modeling workshop using materials gathered from the surroundings: clay, stones, wild plants, bark found during our walks. We’ll explore how to incorporate these into the clay: using imprinting, inclusions, homemade colored slip, preparing ashes for glaze, and more.

Tuesday, July 15 – Afternoon
Mixed printmaking workshop focused on monotype and kitchen-litho. Monotype involves creating an image by assembling textured materials, inking, and printing them—each print is unique, shaped by the inking and wiping process.
Kitchen-litho is a DIY version of lithography using kitchen items like foil, soda, and spoons. You draw with an oil-soaked brush to create a reusable matrix.
Drawing theme: the banquet table, inspired by vegetables, table items, and classic still life imagery.

Wednesday, July 16 – Afternoon
A research lab will open with conventional and experimental engraving techniques to explore how to decorate raw clay. We’ll test various methods—sgraffito, direct inclusion, monotype, resist decoration, incisions—all echoing Edith’s workshop.

Lucie Masvigner, Edith Mercier and the Züzülü

Lucie Masvigner
After earning her arts diploma in Paris, Lucie continued her studies near Limoges.
She completed her final internship in Japan, where she trained in rare techniques like kintsugi and raku with a local artisan. Back in France, she initially worked in design, but felt the need to reconnect with her material: clay.
Today she works in her Züzülü studio in Petit Bayonne and teaches group classes at l’Artsenal in the Saint-Esprit district.

Edith Mercier
Trained as a graphic designer, she discovered engraving and printmaking through the collective workshops of IPN in Toulouse. Eventually, she returned to the Basque Country and settled in Züzülü, a transdisciplinary workshop in Petit Bayonne.
She now works as an illustrator and freelance graphic designer, and co-directs the experimental magazine “L’Esprit Tranquille” published by Les Presses Fantômes.
Her time is split between drawing, low-cost engraving, graphic design, and printed object creation.

The Züzülü
Züzülü is a shared studio in Petit Bayonne where 13 artists and artisans create side by side. It’s a space of exchange, advice and laughter—but we rarely get the chance to play with each other’s techniques.
Lucie (ceramist) and Edith (graphic artist and printmaker) have long dreamed of playing with the phrase “We don’t play at the table!”. For Errobiko Festibala, they take the opportunity to combine a residency and public workshops, laying the groundwork for an experimental, transdisciplinary project around tables, games, ceramics, engraving, and design. Come experiment with us!