Dromana Primary School - School of Fish - Participatory art project

 

Funding Amount: $10,000

The School of Fish participatory mosaic project offers Dromana Primary School students, staff, their families and wider community an opportunity to connect and create together after the lockdowns and isolation of 2020-21. Creating a message of celebration and community, it emphasises the uniquely beautiful location where we are placed and the idea that as a community we are stronger together. The vision for School of Fish is to run a series of workshops encouraging students and the wider community to explore the place where we are and to create their own simple personalised clay tile representing aspects of the forest or the bay.

Artist Judi Singleton has been engaged with designing School of Fish and delivering workshops which will provide significant meaningful engagement for participants. Judi is a local professional artist who runs workshops at Dromana Pottery Group. She has many years experience leading collaborative art projects of this kind and working with adults and children from a range of backgrounds and levels of experience.Judi’s community mosaic works can be viewed at Mt Martha’s Sunshine Reserve and at Warringine, Hastings.

The completed mosaic artwork will be made up of 200+ glazed and fired ceramic tiles which will eventually be installed in a prominent position within the community (we intend to apply for a community placement grant in 2022 to install the mosaic either on the school grounds or the school’s boatshed which is located on Dromana).