Community Mosaic Project

The Awesome Arts Festival in Australia is conducted annually throughout regional areas in Western Australia and is designed to introduce students to a variety of creative mediums to encourage them to learn new skills. Twelve pairs of artists from a range of creative mediums are chosen each year to participate, 8 pairs from Western Australia and 4 from interstate. This year Denise Chard and Lee Fullarton were chosen to represent Queensland.

Denise and Lee work in collaboration with school communities in the creative medium of art glass mosaics. They also enjoy being a part of the Artists in Residencies program to help in the creation of a number of major art works throughout South East Queensland.

The Awesome Arts project was carried out in Mt. Magnet, which is a small gold mining town 600km north east of Perth, WA. The project topic for 2018 was ‘Your Voice’ and the process consisted of working with the local school community and engaging participants to develop themes to explore, including tolerance, empathy, mindfulness, community, culture, identity, and place. Using these themes, students created personal stories and numerous students included aspects of their indigenous culture.

Denise and Lee assisted in the creation of approximately 40-45 circular pieces which were created using glass mosaics installed on to Blue Board, using a range of LATICRETE materials including 4237 Latex Additive and PERMACOLOR® Grout. The artworks were then installed on the wall of the Art and Music wing at the school with the assistance of the teachers.

“LATICRETE is always our product of choice because of its longevity, proven endurance and ease of use. These beautiful story mosaics will be part of the Mt. Magnet school for many, many years to come and the students who were able to participate were certainly very proud of themselves when they saw the end result” – Denise Chard from Denise Chard Creative Glass Designs, and Lee FullARTon Artist.

To see more of Denise and Lee’s mosaic art head to the Denise Chard Creative Glass Designs Facebook page, or http://www.leefullarton.com/

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