Mosaicking at Bundagen

 

Guy Crossley at work, adding glaze to the bees for the flower pots.

I've just got back from Guy's at Bundagaree, out the back of Bundagen, where, down at the barn Tim Cole and the crew have been creating a 7 metre long mosaic and a couple of 0.9m diameter flower pots to be installed at a new roundabout in Ryde.

I'm not sure about who to attribute the artworks below to.As I find out(Tim?) I'll try to fill in the gaps

 

A succulent in flower - unfired clay with freshly added colour. I'm not sure who created the shapes, I added the colour to this one. This is one of the feature the went on the pots

 

The other feature I painted drying before firing, not quite enough - one of the flowers exploded. This one is a banksia, and I'm pretty sure Matumbe - aka Rebecca -  created this design

 

 Wattle, and pieces of another flower, fresh from the kiln

 

Zinnias and a strawflower(?). I cracked this piece later on while gathering firewood for a blaze in the fireplace. OOPs

 

More freshly fired flowers

 

The succulent

 

Bottlebrush and a stray banksia cone. I helped Matumbe with painting these

 

Waratah

 

I'm not sure what these bell flowers are called, and whose design it is

 

Banksia, post explosion

 

Bees, by Guy Crossley

 

Matumbe's Callistemon

 

One piece of the mosaic under construction, with a hand, Janali's

 

And again

 

The middle piece with more hands

 

Stained Glass!

 

Mosaickers at work - ?, Galadriel(?), Lali, Janali, and Cosmo Dave

 

Again

 

The transcendent end of the mural, with the Tessarae Man/cloud figure, which i put together along with the sky. Matumbe did this part of the Kundalini figure and the yellow one(name?) too

 

Mo and Matumbe did a lot of these figures

 

The thinking man(right) and the reclining figure in the animal spirited panel

 

Panel under construction

 

Tim and his mum

 

Tim and his mum, as well as Lali

 

Kai, Sylvie, Charly, and Lali 

 

The bottom part of the Kundalini figure, with python legs by Xanthe, and Lotus surround by Cosmo Dave

 

Tessarae Manwith figures by Tim and Matumbe from local bundagen clay

 

Carly Sylvie and Lali making up the inset panels containing the dancing figures

 

Tim and Guy assemble tiles for the pots

 

In the Barn -  Tim, Guy, Kai, Charly, and Lali

 

Wattle on one the pots before grouting

 

Bottlebrush and a native bee

 

Kai, Sylvie, Lali and Charly work on the panel behind the Waratah and a black cockatoo, another of Guy's designs

 

Mo in the Kitchen

 

Tim and Kai behind another of Gut's cockatoos and the banksia

 

 

? and Sylvie

 

Xanthe and Tim

 

Mo

 

Sylvie

 

 

Before grouting

 

Kai, Charly, Lali, Sylvie and Charly again

 

Mo, Guy, Tim< Kai, Lali, and Charly at work

 

Tim's car outside Guy's