Keilor Heights Primary School Mosaic

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.

The Moonambel Recreation Reserve Ladies Toilets

The first wall was made to celebrate "Ladies, bring a plate", which was what Ladies were asked to do at community get togethers. The wall was divided into diamonds and the community of Moonambel were invited to come and fill in a diamond with broken pieces of tiles and plates. Donations of tiles and ceramic plates etc were given by the community to the project.


Many people learnt about the process of mosaicing, through participating in the project. The project was organised by Deborah Wood, Sanne Malkaer and Debbie Qadri.


(Above) This is the second side of the building that was mosaiced, again by a group of about ten people from the community. It was completed in one day. A very hot day. It has the ubiquitous teapot and the word 'Ladies' on it to signify that this building contains the "Ladies" restrooms.



The third wall has two tea cup and saucers on it and the words 'Ladies, bring a plate'.
You can find these mosaics at the recreation reserve which is on the left side of the road as you drive towards Moonambel from the Sunraysia Highway.

Keilor Downs Primary School

These figures were made by students in the school. Grade 1/2 students made the bodies of the figures by tracing around a cardboard template onto a slab of clay. They cut out the figure with a bamboo skewer and then painted it with underglazes. Older children made the faces with the theme of 'performing'.


Here is a wall where we placed a tall section of mosaic to brighten it up. It includes the performing figures made by children in the school. The stars, circles and squares were made by the prep children.
The years highlighted in the mosaic celebrate the school's twenty first birthday.


This lizard was made by a grade six student to celebrate the school pets. Blue-tongued lizards are kept in some of the class rooms.



Many of the students made clay features to celebrate the school motto "perform with pride".

Lincolnville Pre-school mosaic

This is the mosaic at Lincolnville Kindergarten that was made in 2007. Workshops were held during pre-school sessions where each child made a hand out of clay and then painted it. Afterwards their first name was written on the hand. The hands were arranged in a circular design around a ceramic replica of the logo.
Parents donated tiles for the mosaic.

keilor gatehouse pre-school mosaic 2008

This is the mosaic that was made by Debbie Qadri with the children, teachers and parents of the Keilor Gatehouse Kindergarten in 2009. The project took a term to complete and was enabled by a grant from the Brinbank city council and the fundraising of the parent committee. Cement sheet was mounted onto the brick wall at the front of the pre-school by some parents. Children and parents took part in workshops to make features for the mosaic made out of clay.


here is an example of a feature made out of clay.


Children worked to make parts for trees out of clay. This is what it looked like on the table after it was made.


This is the pre-school logo which was incorporated into the design, of a girl and a boy. The rainbow above the logo contains the hands of children with a name written on each one.


Here is another example of an insect made in a workshop by a parent and child.