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.

sea creatures made by guest artists for wall of 1000 fish

This is the octopus made by Pam Jackson. It is made using blue slip in a piping bag. Lost one of its legs in a grouting storm.



This is marias boxing fish, that did fall apart a bit so I glued it onto a tile with glaze.




This is the lone mermaid, made by me years ago. She was on the wall by herself, that's why she was a lone mermaid. Now she is on the wall with 1000 fish and is still a lone mermaid because she is the only one. I really like this mermaid. It is bisque fired terracotta with coloured slips.
She is still the centre of attention, but could get eaten at any minute.



Yusef and Ben made these fish. They used that bright red underglaze that Pam bought for me once. They are sort of matching in colour. I like them because they are swimming together and they remind us of a long friendship between these two boys.