The Mosaic at keilor Heights was made with all the children of the school. In Art Classes children made clay features about the four seasons. Some poetry in Italian about the four seasons was painted onto clay to make tiles for the mosaic. The mosaic featured four trees, each representing a different season.A Parent and child workshop was held so that parents could contribute to the mosaic. They made mosaic insects. We used a transfer method to move them from the art room to the mosaic wall. The broken tile pieces are arranged to make the picture and then paper is glued over the top of the arrangement using watered down PVA, to hold it together. Later when it is dry, glue is placed on the mosaic wall, and the mosaic picture is pressed into it. Then when the glue is dry the paper is removed from the front by wetting it repeatedly and peeling it off.
This mosaic is fifteen metres long and three metres high. It was completed by the children, Staff, parents and artist in residence Debbie Qadri.
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