An Under the sea mosaic at Keilor Heights Primary School

This Under the Sea Mosaic Mural was made by Michelle Barry and Debbie Qadri at Keilor Heights Primary School. The ceramic features of the mosaic were made by the children, teachers and parents of the school.
The mosaic is seven metres wide and two and a half metres high.
All of the classes in the school participated in workshops to make the ceramic features for the mosaic of fish, mermaids and mermen, boats, shells, a treasure chest, corals and seaweed, swimmers and deepsea divers.
All of the ceramic features were made using white earthenware clay and liquid underglazes. They were fired in the school kiln.


This is a view of the mosaic from the opposite angle.


The features were glued onto the wall and the background filled in with a mosaic of broken tiles to suggest the sand, sea and a stormy sunset above.


Near the centre of the mosaic is a black rock that reaches up to become an island with a lighthouse.

Autumn 2010 Under the sea Mural at Keilor Heights Primary School

The Under The Sea Mosaic Mural was made by Debbie Qadri and Michelle Barry, featuring ceramic features made by the children, teachers and parents of Keilor Heights Primary School.
Autumn 2010
Above is a view of the top of the mosaic with a stormy sea crashing towards a lighthouse.


Some boats and a merman made by year 5/6 boys


A mermaid, boats and fish all made using earthenware clay and underglazes as decoration.


See the treasure chest in the bottom right corner made by Debbie and 2/3K students.
The many fish were made by grades 3/4 and the prep students with their buddies.
The shell and treasure were made by grade 1 and 2 students


Here you can see the many tubs of broken, coloured tiles that were used to make the mosaic.

Under the Sea Mosaic at Keilor Heights Primary School

This mosaic was made in 2010 by Michelle Barry and Debbie Qadri with the children, teachers and parents of Keilor Heights Primary School.
It is made with ceramic features made by the children, with mosaic forming the background picture.
This is a ceramic piece of a pink girl in a purple bikini. It was made by 5/6 students using earthenware clay and underglazes.


A deep sea diver peers out from behind a rock.


A penguin and duck walk out along the jetty to catch a boat.
Below then are two swimmers and a mermaid.
Just behind them on the jetty, a deep sea diver comes up for some fresh air.


A snakefish or sea serpent made by a teacher.


King Neptune, made by a team of 5/6 boys.

Keilor Heights - Under The Sea Project

Keilor Heights Primary School - Under the Sea Project
Made by Debbie Qadri and Michelle Barry and the children,
teachers and parents of Keilor Heights Primary School in Autumn 2010
Here's a mermaid amongst the fish. The boats above were done by grades 5/6 students.
Most ceramic pieces were made by students in workshops and then incorporated into the final design.


Above you can see how the ceramic features have been incorporated into the mosaic.


This is a special ceramic artwork of a man being eaten by a shark.


Debbie Qadri working on the mosaic


Michelle Barry working on the mosaic