School+Workshops

=Bishop Druitt College 09= For the 2009 EYE Festival, we decided to make an Aboriginal mural, on the front of the stage, in the secondary assembly area. I asked a local indigenous artist, Rebecca Beetson __[|www.yaingayaingarra.com/]__ to help with the original design and she also helped the kids choose colours and patterns on the first mosaicing day. Prior to this day, some kids had made small ceramic creatures which had been fired and then were incorporated into the mural. A large "rainbow serpent" winds along the whole length of the mural, to tie it all together. Here is a kangaroo, one of the four large animals that are featured in the mural. You can see more pictures of this project on my flickr site

**Bishop Druitt College 08** Over 2 afternoons, I ran a workshop at the school with a group of primary school students and a handful of high school students, and we made a "coat of many colours" for a concrete dragon in the kindy playground. Myself, Truus and some other helpers, went back to the school and finished it in the holidays. media type="youtube" key="Ij7r24xpMXM" width="425" height="350"

=Bishop Druitt College 06= Myself and Truus Meulenbroeks, along with about 40 of the primary and high school kids and some of my NESB students (Petra, Kumiko, Etsuko, Fusae and Jabe) created this mosaic mural at a Coffs Harbour school, over 4 afternoons in late September 2006. We did the flower and insect motifs on mesh, and these, plus some small fired terracotta insects, were glued onto the wall with cement based tile adhesive. Then we filled in the background with broken ceramic tiles. The rainbow was an afterthought. It appeared dramatically in the sky, late on Day 2, and demanded to be included. In the school holidays, we grouted the mural and here is the finished product. Click [|here] to see more photos on Flickr. media type="custom" key="7444"

And here is a movie that Kumiko made with Photostory:
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