Albion Primary School making mural!!!!

Today students at Albion Primary School made more artwork for the mural.
The prep/1s made tiles for the river and grass pressings for the grasslands in the mural.
The 1/2s made stars on bisque tiles for the night sky.

Here are some pictures:

pressing the grasses into the clay

rolling them in with the rolling pin

painting them with colours of the summer grasslands

using liquid underglazes

adding other individual markings!

placing a thin wash of colour onto the tiles to highlight the textures of the pressings.

Scratching into the black underglaze with a skewer

starry sketches and designs

our stars with an example of how they will look after being glazed and fired

painting tiles for the river

placing our finished painted tiles onto a board for drying

painting, painting, painting

patterns  of wavy lines to represent the water

and dots to represent the sun on the water

These will be wonderful in the river!

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Information

Kororoit Creek - 

Wurundjeri Acknowledgement Project   2015

Brimbank Council have approved a 'Community Strengthening Grant for this project which will cover the costs of materials and consultation and involvement of Wurundjeri Elders with the project. 

Debbie has been working with Wurundjeri Elders to design the mural. The theme of the mural is the  six seasons that the Wurundjeri people acknowledged and organised their year of activities and food gathering around. This theme relates specifically to their use of the Kororoit Creek and their careful management of the natural environment so that it could sustain them and continue to regenerate. The educational aims are to give children an understanding of the Indigenous perspective of the environment and to acknowledge the heritage of the local land and the Wurundjeri People.

This project will be an artwork made onto the concrete cylinder that is down by the Kororoit Creek where many artefacts of the Wurundjeri People have been found.

Debbie will be organising this project in liason with Brimbank Council departments of Community Planning and Engagement  and Sustainability and Environment. Four local schools are involved  in making the ceramic pieces for this artwork; Albion Primary School, St Theresa's School, Ardeer Primary and Mother of God School.

here is our cylinder, on which the mural will be made using ceramics and mosaic. It is seven metres around and 120 centimetres high.