Workshop Tour 2024 - Mosaic Association of Australia and New Zealand

Places on the workshop tour are now open to MAANZ members and non-MAANZ members. Please note you do NOT have to be logged into the website to register for a place, just click the registration button.

Please read workshop descriptions carefully before committing. They are listed in date order within each state. For precise locations see workshop descriptions.
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NSW

Session: AWNSW3 Andamento as Language with Anabella Wewer
When: Friday 1 November, Saturday 2 November and Sunday 3 November 2024
9:00 am – 5:00 pm each day including breaks. (21 hours over 3 days)
Where: The Woodford Academy, NSW | Host: Caitlin Hepworth
Session type: Hands on | Max no of students: 9 | Level: Intermediate/Advanced
Cost: $890 (including $110 materials fee). Refreshments included. BYO Lunch

Letters form words, which form sentences, then paragraphs, and ultimately entire texts — in the same way that tesserae form lines, which form shapes, which tell stories and communicate ideas. The character of each tessera, and its placement within space, allows us to create a multitude of different effects, much like languages have dialects, accents and slang. Grammar and typography govern how we arrange words into text and determine how easy or hard it is to read and understand. This course explores how texture, spacing, and dimension, layered over the basic principles of andamento, give lines, and therefore our mosaics, very different characteristics, or accents.

Basic mosaic tools required. List to follow.

Your host will be in touch with you via email prior to the workshop to confirm the workshop details, venue address, and directions. For local information about venue, accommodation, transport etc, contact your host at caitlin@hepworthstudios.com

Session: MSNSW3 Painterly Smalti Mosaics with Mireille Swinnen
When: Friday 8, Saturday 9, and Sunday 10 November 2024
9:00 am – 5:00 pm each day including breaks (21 hours over 3 days)
Where: Bella Studio, Villa Rustica, Brooklet, NSW | Host: Jane Denison
Session type: Hands on | Max no of students: 9 | Level: All levels
Cost: $930 (including $150 materials fee). Morning tea, afternoon tea and lunch included.

Learn how to create painterly smalti mosaics transforming an image into a 25 x 25cm work of art. You will be taught a set of rules to enhance the effect of light in your work which will promote three dimensional effects through the manipulation of warm and cool colours, complementary colour, use of light and dark and the connection of the subject to the background.

Using the direct method over the image and a broad colour palette of smalti to choose from, you will come away with a comprehensive understanding of the use of smalti, its unique qualities and luscious range of colours.

Basic mosaic tools required. List to follow.

Your host will be in touch with you via email prior to the workshop to ask you to select your design, confirm the workshop details, venue address, and directions. For local information about venue, accommodation, transport etc, contact your host at janefurney49@gmail.com

Session: LBNSW1 An Evening with Luca Barberini, Mosaic performance and Masterclass
When: Friday 6 December 2024, 6:00 pm – 8.30 pm. Arrive 5:00pm for a 6:00pm start (2 ½ hours)
Where: The Woodford Academy, NSW | Host: Caitlin Hepworth
Session type: Performance Masterclass | Max no of students: 20 | Level: All Levels
Cost: $150. Drinks and grazing platters included.

Luca Barberini is a storyteller whose contemporary mosaic works traverse broad themes, from the simple interactions and private moments of the everyday, through to the global humanitarian crisis.

His works offer a snapshot of life, at times dreamlike and amusing, and other times distilled and raw. Luca’s use of simplified shapes allow gesture to be magnified, his visual language is refined and considered, his mosaic practice a conduit for commentary on the world today.

In this Performance Masterclass you will experience the process of Luca creating a work from conception to completion. He will narrate his journey through the mosaic making process, interacting with the audience as he works. You will have the opportunity to ask questions and observe his creative process in action.

Session: AGNSW3 Contemporary Portraiture: Facial Fragments with Arianna Gallo
When: Friday 6 December, Saturday 7 December and Sunday 8 December 2024
9:00 am – 5:00 pm each day including breaks. (21 hours over 3 days)
Where: Hepworth Studios, Woodford, NSW | Host: Caitlin Hepworth
Session type: Hands on| Max no of students: 9 | Level: Advanced
Cost: $900 (Including $120 Materials Fee). Morning and afternoon tea supplied. BYO Lunch.

Led by Maestra Arianna Gallo from Koko Mosaico Ravenna, students will learn the fundamental principles of contemporary mosaic portraiture through the creation of a facial fragment.

Students learn to interpret portrait imagery paying particular attention to proportion, colour, light and shadow to create expression and capture the individual details of the subject.

Students will work with smalti, stone and other mixed media in the direct on plastic method which allows for both acute proportional observation and creative interpretation of the image beneath. The portraiture subjects are based on the student’s personal selection and designs are finalised in advance of the workshop.

When complete the facial fragment can be transferred to the substrate supplied.

Basic mosaic tools. List to follow.

Students will submit three portrait fragments to Arianna to determine suitability prior to the workshop. Guidance will be provided on how to make your selection.

Your host will be in touch with you via email prior to the event with more details about the design preparation process, workshop details, venue address, and directions. For local information about venue, accommodation, transport etc, contact your host at caitlin@hepworthstudios.com

QLD

Session: LBQLD1 An Evening with Luca Barberini, Mosaic Performance and Masterclass
When: Friday 29 November 2024, 6:00 pm – 8.30 pm. Arrive 5:30pm for a 6:00pm start (2 ½ hours)
Where: Catherine Conaty’s Studio, Carina Heights QLD | Host: Catherine Conaty
Session type: Performance Masterclass | Max no of students: 18 | Level: All Levels
Cost: $150. Drinks and grazing platters included.

Luca Barberini is a storyteller whose contemporary mosaic works traverse broad themes, from the simple interactions and private moments of the everyday, through to the global humanitarian crisis.

Session: AGQLD2 Ravenna Direct Technique with Arianna Gallo
When: Saturday 30 November and Sunday 1 December 2024
8:30am – 5:30 pm each day including breaks. (16 hours over 2 days)
Where: Catherine Conaty’s Studio, Carina Heights QLD | Host: Catherine Conaty
Session type: Hands on| Max no of students: 10 | Level: All Levels
Cost: $655 (including $80 materials fee). Morning and afternoon tea supplied. BYO Lunch. Optional dinner out

Expand your classical repertoire by learning the Ravenna Direct Technique with Arianna Gallo co-founder of Koko Mosaico, an internationally renowned mosaic studio and school.

Be inspired by the Byzantine wall mosaics of Ravenna selecting from one of three designs to suit your level of experience. Learn how to cut Venetian smalti and the technique of transferring the cartoon (mosaic drawing) onto wet adhesive to faithfully reproduce your choice of Byzantine design. Become immersed in the incredible colour palette available and develop systems of cutting and laying that can transfer to your own studio practice.

Over the two days, you will work in sections laying your tesserae directly into your cartoon on a bedding of cement-based adhesive in a 25 x 30 cm frame. The featured design will not fill the entire frame.

Basic mosaic tools required. List to follow.

Your host will be in touch with you via email prior to the workshop to ask you to select your colour palette, confirm the workshop details, venue address, and directions. For local information about venue, accommodation, transport etc, contact your host at qldrep@maanz.org

SA

Session: LBSA1 An Evening with Luca Barberini, Mosaic Performance and Masterclass
When: Friday 22 November 2024, 6:00 pm – 8.30 pm. Arrive 5:30pm for a 6:00pm start (2 ½ hours)
Where: Mosaics by Design, Blackwood, SA| Host: Deanna Kernick
Session type: Performance Masterclass | Max no of students: 20 | Level: All Levels
Cost: $150. Drinks and grazing platters included.

Luca Barberini is a storyteller whose contemporary mosaic works traverse broad themes, from the simple interactions and private moments of the everyday, through to the global humanitarian crisis.

Session: TFSA1A and TFSA1B Wild at Heart Workshop with Tamara Froud
When: Saturday 23 OR Sunday 24 November 2024, 10:00am – 4:00pm both days including breaks.
6 hours, 1 day
Where: Ripples ArtSHED, Campbelltown SA | Host: Kristin Wohlers
Session type: Hands on | Max no of students: 16 | Level: All Levels
Cost: $160 Morning and afternoon tea supplied. BYO Lunch

Learn the basics of mosaic and creating public art, refine your techniques and be part of bringing the Wild at Heart Project to the public realm in South Australia.

Award-winning UK mosaic artist Tamara Froud is coming to South Australia to facilitate this a weekend workshop. She is dedicated to bringing mosaic art to a wider audience and specialises in storytelling and community mosaic art.

Tamara Froud is joining forces with local MAANZ Community Officer Kristin Wohlers to compose beautiful Stobie Pole panels. The Rondels, from the Common Unity – Wild at Heart project made by mosaic artists across Australia and ten other countries, will be the content of the artworks and we will create a meaningful background for each one. See the info graphic here.

You will learn about

Design and layout for a specific location
Preparing a base for mosaics
Tools of the trade
Cutting techniques
Appropriate adhesives, grouts and sealers for public art

You will also have the opportunity to participate in the installation of the mosaics in Campbelltown.

Session: AGSA2 Ravenna Contemporary Technique with Arianna Gallo
When: Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 November 2024, 9:00am – 5:30pm both days including breaks
16 hours over 2 days
Where: Mosaics by Design, Blackwood, SA| Host: Deanna Kernick
Session type: Hands on | Max no of students: 14 | Level: All Levels
Cost: $675 (including $100 materials fee). Morning and afternoon tea supplied. BYO Lunch

Using the Contemporary Ravenna Technique students will create a colourful contemporary mosaic 20 x 20cm in size. Students will select from three modern images with freedom to personalise the design by reworking the colour palette to suit their own style.

During the workshop students will learn to apply contemporary cutting and laying techniques to translate the image utilising a combination of materials including stained glass, smalti and stone.

Students will also learn to safely incorporate beaten lead into their designs to create effective outlines between areas of the mosaic.

The mosaics will be laid directly into a cement based adhesive bedding within a black aluminium frame.

Basic mosaic tools required. List to follow.

Session: MSSA2 Painterly Smalti Mosaics with Mireille Swinnen
When: Friday 29, Saturday 30 November and Sunday 1 December 2024
Friday 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm, Saturday and Sunday 9:00 am – 5:00 pm both days including breaks
(16 hours over 2 ½ days)
Where: Goolwa Guide & Scout Hall, Goolwa, SA | Host: Kristin Wohlers
Session type: Hands on | Max no of students: 15 with assistant | Level: All levels
Cost: $685 (including $110 materials fee). Morning and afternoon tea is included. Catered lunch available or BYO

Learn how to create painterly smalti mosaics transforming an image into a 20 x 20cm work of art. You will be taught a set of rules to enhance the effect of light in your work which will promote three dimensional effects through the manipulation of warm and cool colours, complementary colours, use of light and dark and the connection of the subject to the background.

Basic mosaic tools required. List to follow.

VIC

Session: MSVIC1 Micro Mosaic Jewellery with Mireille Swinnen
When: 20 November 2024, 9.00am – 5.30pm including breaks
8 hours – 1 day
Where: Hann-Made Studio, Ocean Grove, Vic| Host: Cheryl Hann-Woodlock
Session type: Hands on | Max no of students: 15 with assistant | Level: All Levels
Cost: $385 (including $85 materials fee). Morning and afternoon tea is included. BYO Lunch

Learn to design and make your own contemporary micro mosaic jewellery in this one-day workshop with Mireille Swinnen. You will receive a silver-plated bracelet and two more silver-plated bezels of your liking selecting from pendants, cuff links, mandalas, rings, and brooches. You will create your unique designs with the support of templates provided for your reference. You will select from a broad range of coloured filati, stringers and millefiori and learn to cut and build your design with Apoxie Sculpt adhesive. With this method, you can be confident that you will complete no fewer than two beautifully crafted jewellery pieces and the inspiration and knowledge to make many more.

Basic mosaic tools required. List to follow.

Session: MSVIC3 Painterly Smalti Mosaics with Mireille Swinnen
When: Saturday 23, Sunday 24 and Monday 25 November 2024
9:00 am – 5:00 pm each day including breaks (21 hours over 3 days)
Where: Helen Bodycomb’s Studio, Studio 11, Lot 19, Castlemaine, VIC | Host: Helen Bodycomb
Session type: Hands on | Max no of students: 10 | Level: All levels
Cost: $930 (including $150 materials fee). Morning tea, afternoon tea and lunch included.

Learn how to create painterly smalti mosaics transforming an image into a 25 x 25cm work of art. You will be taught a set of rules to enhance the effect of light in your work which will promote three dimensional effects through the manipulation of warm and cool colours, complementary colours, use of light and dark and the connection of the subject to the background.

Basic mosaic tools required. List to follow.

Session: TFVIC2 Many Hands Mosaic with Tamara Froud
When: Friday 29 and Saturday 30 November 2024
9:00 am – 5:00 pm each day including breaks (16 hours over 2 days)
Where: Mulbury, 26 Advantage Rd, Highett, 3190 | Host: Jacqui McCooke
Session type: Hands on | Max no of students: 12 | Level: All levels
Cost: $625 (including $50 materials fee). Tea, coffee and light refreshments included. BYO lunch.

This two day workshop provides a practical in depth guide to developing and running large-scale mosaic projects within schools or community groups. Explore methods and materials through a range of hands-on practical activities that result in physical samples that exemplify techniques. Leave the workshop with the knowledge and resources to embark on your own large-scale project with your school or community.

See the infosheet for further information on the workshop.

Please bring basic mosaic tools if you have them. List to follow.

WA

Session: AWWA1 Fading away: The ins and outs of gradations in mosaic with Anabella Wewer
When: Friday 13 December 2024
9:00am – 5:30pm including breaks (1 day of 8 hours)
Where: Victoria Park Centre for the Arts, East Victoria Park, WA | Host: Margaret Waterton
Session type: Hands on | Max no of students: 15 with assistant | Level: All Levels
Cost: $420 (including $120 materials fee). Morning tea provided BYO lunch.

Successful execution of colour gradations in mosaic can affect dimensionality in pictorial mosaics, aid in story telling in representational or abstract works, or stand alone as beautiful gradients of colour. This one-day workshop is designed to focus narrowly on the study of a small segment of colour theory: tints and shades, and looks at how to successfully combine traditional and uncommon materials as tesserae to achieve the desired results. The course will approach gradations from different points of view, also considering reflectivity, density of colour, and tesserae dimension to create more evocative mosaics.

Basic mosaic tools required. List to follow.

Session: AWWA2 Nature as Muse with Anabella Wewer
When: Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 December 2024
9:00am – 5:30pm including breaks (16 hours over 2 days)
Where: Victoria Park Centre for the Arts, East Victoria Park, WA | Host: Margaret Waterton
Session type: Hands on | Max no of students: 15 with assistant | Level: All Levels
Cost: $675 (including $100 materials fee). Morning tea provided, BYO lunch

Artists have been re-interpreting nature for millennia. In this workshop students will learn to critically analyse images taken from nature and use them as springboards to creating abstract mosaics.

Participants will be guided through applying design principles to identify focal and perspective points, and consider the usage of space, line and materials in creating compositions that stand alone as engaging non-objective works.

The resulting mosaics may retain a connection to the original images, or may instead become true abstractions, with no tangible relationship to the original beyond the use of the inherent balance found in nature to achieve a new kind of compelling composition.

We will also analyse extreme close-ups, aerial and space images to identify realistic or representational compositions that seem like abstract works when rendered in mosaic techniques. Students come away with a fun way to delve into the abstract realm letting nature do most of the design work!

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