First workshops at Mother of God School in Ardeer!

First School to hold their making workshops for the Kororoit Creek Wurundjeri Acknowledgement Project were the wonderful Mother of God School in Ardeer. The students made some wonderful things today for our mural.

have a look!


First of all we had the 3/4 class making lizards and frogs. They needed to roll out the clay and then scratch in the sketch of the creature. Then they built up the creature by adding clay and then I cut out the creature for them before they painted it.

here I am cutting out around someone's frog

here is a little cunningham's skink

This is a textured skink

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croak!

A photo of the striped legless lizard that is native and particular to Kororoit Creek

legless lizards, growling grass frogs and skinks

Next the year 5/6 students made botanical paintings and drawings of the flora that are native to the Kororoit Creek area, These include, the Murnong (Yam Daisy), Chocolate Lily, various grasses and the Bulbine Lilly. The students looked carefully at photographs of the plants and made thier pictures using underglaze paints, underglaze pencils and underglaze scribblers on bisqued tiles. The students did very detailed and beautiful artworks. They are difficult to see in these pictures because the paints fade, but come to life when they are glazed and fired. I know they are going to be very beautiful!

The kangaroo apple

very detailed work from this wonderful artist

making images of murnong 

Then the 1/2s came to make galaxia fish with me for the river
They did a fantastic job, listening carefully to the instructions and carefully making the fish. They added fins and then textures and painted very carefully.
The river will be very happy to receive them.

adding the texture using a bit of plastic mesh

adding eyes and fins using slip as glue

This is me cutting out the fish for the student

A fish ready to be cut out

Being painted with underglazes

Voila!! a gorgeous fishy ready to be put in the kiln

swimming together

After this I was joined by the Preps who made some grass and plant pressings on clay and painted them carefully with the underglazes. These tiles are going to form the grasslands in the mural. The preps had such fun and made many tiles.

Nice to see you all again!

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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.