The Wet Lab is a technical space for students to experiment and create with materials like clay, plaster, concrete, glass, wax and silicone. The lab can be used to explore processes such as throwing, casting, hand building, glazing, firing, mould making and spray painting.
The lab is open to inducted students enrolled in art and design courses, with access available during scheduled workshops and open lab times.
The Wet Lab supports cross-disciplinary projects and works closely with facilities like the Digital Fabrication Studios, 3D Fabrication Lab, Printmaking Studio and Bindery.
The lab provides safe, student-focused facilities, including:
Students have access to benches and formers designed to support many forms of mould making, including plaster, silicon and urethane rubber.
The lab collaborates closely with the Digital Fabrication Studio and 3D Fabrication Lab to create moulds and models for casting purposes. Students can cast with clay, slip, plaster, glass, wax, silicon, rubber, metal and more
The lab has five electric kilns:
The Wet Lab houses 3 electric pottery wheels. Students also have access to two clay extruders (one can be signed out for use in an AUT studio) and a Cowley slab roller for large slab making.
The 12sqm cross-draught spray booth provides a full LED lighting system, ventilated for spray painting to ensure vapours and potentially harmful chemicals have evaporated before removing objects from the booth. There is also a compressed air line to the booth.
Please note that students need to bring their own air guns.
The fume bench helps prevent students and the environment from toxic fumes when using materials like solvent-based glues and urethane rubbers. This is achieved by continuously delivering airflow away from the user.
The resin room is a temperature-controlled, ventilated space for all resin-based work. It’s designed to safely manage vapours and other chemicals. By isolating resin use to this room, we ensure a safer workspace for everyone.
For more information or to arrange a tour, please contact (insert).
AUT City Campus
Level 3, WM Building
Use MazeMap to find the lab