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Mosaic Chess Board by Linda Davey and kids at Macquarie Primary School, Canberra
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From: "Linda Davy"  To: "Wendy Tanner"  Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2007 7:07 PM Subject: Re: Ceramics Hi Wendy, It is so good when others outside of the sphere of the immediate participants are inspired. Had a look at your site and it looks like you had a lot of fun as I did doing the projects with Macquarie Primary. The chess board was made with square cement pavers, decorated with various shades of black and white recycled tiles with some handmade tiles included within the dark and light tiles. The blocks at each end that are used for sitting or standing on (some of the shorties need that birds eye view) are made from cut and glued Hebel blocks, which are then decorated with tile pictures on all sides except the base. These blocks have steel rods in the base which are then cemented into a hole in the ground so that they cannot be removed. The pavers are then set ontop of sand as you would ordinary pavers and cement put all around the edge to stop removal. A bead of landscaping silicon is then squeezed between the joints of the pavers. I managed to get some x-hockey field grass and laid it all around the the chess board on which we painted hop-scotch boards that the kids had designed. Some of them had never heard of hop-scotch! (I am showing my age). I hope you can manage to do something similar, the chess set at Macquarie has encouraged the surrounding schools to come and participate in chess competitions and encouraged children who may not have be interested or exposed to the game to at least have a go and know what the game is about. Good luck, Linda Davy

**FROG MOSAIC at Sydney Airport** I'm hoping to meet my "frog prince"!!!

=__**“Rainbow Serpent” – Gordon Hookey, 2002, WALCHA**__= This mosaic sculpture was funded by an Australia Council for the Arts grant and made with the ideas and assistance of the local Thunghatti people. It has been placed overlooking the mill-hole, home of the legendary rainbow serpent. Gordon Hookey, a member of Boomali Aboriginal Artists Co-operative, is represented in most State gallery collections and participated in the 2001 Perth International Arts. See [|THIS SITE] for more information on Walcha's Open Air Art Gallery and its sculptures.

=__**Tamworth - Street Mosaic**__= Tamworth, in country NSW, is home to a big Country Music Festival over the Australia Day long weekend (26th January), every year. This street mosaic represents the cultural and historical heritage of the area, as well as this famous music festival. See more pictures on my Flickr site: []

=__Willie the Whale - beside the Manning River at TAREE__= A mosaic project created in 2005 by gifted and talented students from several schools in the Taree area. The mosaic artist was Gwen Ford and the Sculptor, Jane Hosking. More photos: []

**Kim Grant - Canberra ** []

=Marian Shapiro - Sydney = Click on Marian's picture below to enter her website: