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Thursday 17th August - Monday 21st August

2017

Hobart Function Centre

Hobart, Tasmania

Symposium

Schedule

2

Workshops 4

Symposium

Events

5

Vendors 7

Speakers and

Presenters

9

Venues and

Locations

12

AGM Notice 12

Contact

Information

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2.00 pm Exhibition Floor Talk with Caitlin Hughes

Salamanca Arts Centre

Long Gallery

6.00 pm – 9.00 pm Early Registration Evening

Gretel/Marina Rooms

6.00 pm - 9.00 pm Not Salamanca - Vendors’ Market

Gretel Room

8.00 am – 8:45 am Registration and Brown Bag Check in

Gretel Room

8.00 am – 5.00 pm Vendors’ Market

Gretel Room

9.00 am Welcome and Introduction to Symposium 2017

Sovereign Room Noula Diamantopoulos, Pamela Irving, Sue Leitch

Keynote Speaker

Toyoharu Kii My Mosaics and Japanese Mosaic History

10.45 am Morning Tea

Gretel Room

11.15 am Presentations

Sovereign Room Rachel Bremner Music and Mosaic

Lea Kannar-Lichtenberger Beyond the Idealised Mosaic: stepping out

side the comfort zone

Marian Shapiro Adventures in Italy: 2nd international

symposium of contemporary mosaic

Kate Jenkins Inspiration Exploration Reciprocation

Collaboration: a creative journey

1.00 pm Lunch

Gretel Room Submit your questions for Saturday’s panel to the registration desk

2.00 pm Presentations

Sovereign Room Kelley Knickerbocker The Collaboration Equation:

E(volution) = M(odulation) x C(reativity)2

Cetta Pilati If it Doesn’t Challenge You, it Won’t

Change You

Kate Butler Mosaic Art Scholarship

3.15 pm Afternoon Tea

Gretel Room

3.45 pm - 4.45 pm Presentations

Sovereign Room Helen Bodycomb The Material and the Immaterial

Bev Plowman Making my Marks

6.30 pm – 8.30 pm Exhibition Openings and Cocktail Party

Salamanca Arts Centre National Exhibition, 30: 30 and Tessera

Thursday

17th August

Friday

18th August

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8.15 am – 8.45 am Registration and Brown Bag Check in

Gretel Room Last chance!


Gretel Room

9.00 am Welcome to Day Two

Sovereign Room Noula Diamantopoulos and Pamela Irving

9.20 am Presentations

Sovereign Room Sandy Robertson On Location with Sandy: Community art

and storytelling in mosaics; Can I use that

image; Mosaic design quickie!

John Sollinger Thinking Outside the Square

Wendy Edwards Making of Sam’s Swan

10.30 am Morning Tea

Gretel Room

11.00 am Panel Discussion Ask the Panel

Sovereign Room Helen Bodycomb, Caitlin Hughes, Pamela Irving, Kelley Knickerbocker

Facilitated by Noula Diamantopoulos

12.00 noon Brown Bag Exchange

Gretel Room Followed by Lunch

1.00 pm - 4.00 pm Workshops - See schedule on page 4

2.00 pm Exhibition Floor Talk with Caitlin Hughes

Salamanca Arts Centre

Long Gallery

4.30 pm - 5.15 pm Annual General Meeting

Marina Room

7. 30 pm Evening Event - Formal Dinner

Sovereign/Marina Rooms


Gretel Room

9.30 am -12.30 pm Workshops - See schedule on page 4

12.30 pm - 1.00 pm Lunch Break

Sample the local eateries and/or browse the vendors’ market

1.00 pm - 4.00 pm Workshops - See schedule on page 4

4.30 pm - 5.15 pm Registration for Mosaic Art Salon Exhibitors

Marina Room

6.00 pm – 7:30 pm Mosaic Art Salon and Silent Auction

Marina Room

Saturday

19th August

Sunday

20th August

Program

times may be

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Afternoon Workshop Sessions


Morning Workshop Sessions


Afternoon Workshop Sessions


Saturday

19th August

1.00 - 4.00 pm

Sunday

20th August

9.30 - 12.30 pm

Presenter Workshop Room

Rachel Bremner Looking at Andamento Norfolk

Wendy Edwards Design and Construction of Sculpture Sovereign

Toyoharu Kii The Kii Mosaic Style Mawson

Cetta Pilati Essential Tips to Create in Marble Iluka

Marian Shapiro Bend, Fold and Undulate Marina


Helen Bodycomb Contemporary Interpretation of Classical Mosaics Marina

Wendy Edwards Design and Construction of Sculpture Sovereign

Lea Kannar-Lichetenberger Inspiration from the Microscopic World Norfolk


Kelley Knickerbocker Give Me Room! Iluka


Kate Jenkins Discover Your Visual Language Norfolk


Kelley Knickerbocker Give Me Room! Iluka

Bev Plowman Mosaic Murals Sovereign A

Sandy Robertson Fantasy Mosaic Leaves Sovereign B

1.00 - 4.00 pm

Mosaic Exhibitions Presentations and Award Night 6.30 - 8.30 pm Friday 18th August Salamanca Arts Centre, Long Gallery Join your host MAANZ president Noula Diamantopoulos and the curators of the exhibitions; Fiona

Tettman, Bev Plowman, and Donna Ritchie for the official opening and awards night. Our thanks

also to Kaye Gilhooly who curated the Tessera exhibition. The Presentation and Awards night is

open to all symposium delegates and guest ticket holders.

Brown Bag Exchange Gretel Room

12 noon Saturday 19th August

Join in this fun and free exchange with other symposium delegates. Check in

your brown paper bag of some of your favourite tesserae as a gift to another

delegate when you register and receive a raffle ticket in exchange. On Satur-

day, hand in your raffle ticket, pick a brown bag and enjoy!

Mosaic Art Salon and Silent Auction Marina Room

6.00 pm - 7.30 pm Sunday 20th August

Don’t miss out on this exciting action-packed event. MC’d by one

of our speakers, Kelley Knickerbocker, this is your chance to bid

for a unique piece of mosaic art for your own collection and own

a little something from someone you admire. Open to all sympo-

sium attendees and paying guests. Cash bar and canapés.

Exhibition Floor Talks Salamanca Arts Centre Long Gallery

2.00 pm, Thursday 18th August and Saturday 20th August

Join MAANZ Education Officer Caitlin Hughes in a floor talk of the exhibitions.

Gain insight and observe the diversity in contemporary mosaic practice

through the discussion of the exhibited works. Listen, contribute and ask

questions as we look at the making of mosaics through discussing different

approaches to subject matter, conceptual resolution, material choices and

technical application.

Detail Mother and Child

Tours Monday 21st August 9.30 am

Both tours depart from Brooke Street Pier

The MONA tour is by ferry and the Castle Phoenix tour goes by coach.

Symposium Delegate Bags All delegates will receive a MAANZ symposium bag filled with awesome products,

sample tiles, pens, mosaic postcards, mosaic advertising material, Tasmanian tour-

ist Information and this brilliant special edition printed MAANZ program detailing

everything about the symposium. A special thank you to our supporters* for their

contributions to the MAANZ symposium bag.

* Information correct at the time of going to print

Vendors - Not Salamanca Gretel Room

Thursday 17th August 6.00 pm - 9.00 pm

Friday 18th August 8.00 am – 5.00 pm

Saturday 19th August 8.00 am – 5.00 pm

Sunday 20th August 9.00 am – 3.00 pm

Welcome to the Not Salamanca Vendors’ Market, Thursday night shopping fun and early registra-

tion. Register before all the activity starts on Friday and get a first look at the goodies on the ven-

dors’ stalls. We are pleased to announce the following vendors stocked with a colourful and exten-

sive range of products that will be available through the symposium. You will find an exciting se-

lection of mosaic goodies.

Our vendors support MAANZ - show them your support!

Artefact Mosaic Studio Oz Mosaics

Artopia Print Tasmania

Helen Bodycomb Marian Shapiro

Rachel Bremner Mosaics Smalti Australia

Wendy Helleman Glass Tasmanian Perspectives in Mosaic Exhibition

Hughes Studio Tess-Array

Mosaic Art School of Sydney Wagner Framemakers

Mosaic Bazaar Winter Creek Mosaics

Artopia

Wendy Helleman Glass

Mosaic Bazaar

Smalti Australia

Winter Creek Mosaics

Speakers’ Websites

Helen Bodycomb www.helenbodycomb.com Lea Kannar-Lichtenberger www.leakannar.com

Rachel Bremner www.rachelbremner.com Toyoharu Kii www015.upp.so-net.ne.jp/kiiing

Kate Butler www.katebutlermosaics.com Kelley Knickerbocker www.rivenworksmosaics.com

Noula Diamantopoulos www.spontaneouscreativity.com.au Cetta Pilati www.cetta-pilati.com.au

Wendy Edwards www.wendyedwards.net.au Bev Plowman www,bevplowman.com

Caitlin Hughes www.hughesstudio.com.au Sandy Robertson www.ozmosaics.com.au

Pamela Irving www.pamelairving.com.au Marian Shapiro www.dariandesign.com.au

Kate Jenkins www.barossamosaic.com John Sollinger www.roguemosaics.com

http://www.mosaicbazarr.com.au/

http://www.smaltiaustralia.com/

http://www.wendyhellemanglass.com.au/

http://www.wintercreekmosaics.com.au/

http://www.artopiamosaics.com/

Toyoharu Kii - Japan - Keynote Speaker This year’s keynote speaker Toyoharu Kii is based in Tokyo, Japan. In June

and July of this year he exhibited in Chicago and taught at the Chicago Mo-

saic School. He works mostly in marble and produces monochromatic

works showing interesting textures and andamento.

Helen Bodycomb - Australia

Helen Bodycomb has been a full-time mosaicist and a specialist in the con-

temporary interpretation of classical mosaics for more than 20 years, and

is currently completing a PhD in visual art by practice-led research with La

Trobe University. Helen’s PhD research project is titled The Material and The

Immaterial and is an investigation into the application of classical mosaic

methods in contemporary works, with particular focus on memento mori.

Rachel Bremner - Australia

Rachel Bremner is a Tasmanian mosaic artist with a studio-based practice

at her home in Oyster Cove. She is well known both in Australia and inter-

nationally for her contemporary abstract mosaics made using traditional

tools, materials and techniques. Rachel’s studies have included courses

with the finest artists in Italy, France and the US. She has exhibited interna-

tionally and in Australia and has gained many prizes and awards. Her work

has been featured in Craft Arts International and Mosaique magazine.

Kate Butler - Australia

Kate is a mosaic artist living in Bungendore, Southern Tablelands in

NSW. A trained sociologist and researcher, Kate has spent the last two

decades designing and evaluating population health and social welfare

programs. Her recent mosaics, with their distinct textural laying style,

convey her responses to current unprecedented levels of environmental,

economic, cultural and social transformation. She has exhibited in Aus-

tralia and the USA.

Noula Diamantopoulos - Australia

Noula Diamantopoulos is a Sydney-based artist, psychotherapist and

author. She works across a variety of mediums including performance

art (Quest), sculpture, neon art, mosaics and encaustic mosaics. Noula

is the Founding President of MAANZ, the Founding Director of the Mosa-

ic Art School of Sydney and Studio of Spontaneous Creativity. Noula’s

mosaics can be seen in public venues in Australia including large-scale

site-specific works for St Gerasimos Greek Orthodox Church in Leich-

hardt and the Old Catholic Cathedral in Goulburn.

Wendy Edwards - Australia

Wendy is a self-taught mosaicist, learning through books so that she

could mosaic the bathroom in the house she was building. Wendy is

well known for large sculptures, comprising mainly handmade compo-

nents; shaped and impressed ceramic, fused, slumped and cast glass.

Her home in Southern Tasmania is surrounded by native bush providing

abundant inspiration for her work. Wendy keeps body and soul together

through private and public commissions and mosaic workshops.

Auction action at the 2013 salon

Caitlin Hughes - Australia

Caitlin Hughes is a Blue Mountains artist and owner of Hughes Studio: School

of Visual Art and Mosaic. She gained a BFA from NAS in Sculpture and Draw-

ing and a Master of Teaching in VA Ed. at USYD and is passionate about mo-

saic education and the development of mosaic as an art form in Australia.

She is an experienced teacher having taught in schools and museums

throughout NSW including the MCA, The Powerhouse Museum, Penrith Re-

gional Gallery and Sturt Craft Centre. Caitlin has a developing art practice and

has exhibited nationally and internationally.

Pamela Irving - Australia

Pamela Irving has worked as a full time artist for over 30 years. Her sense of

humour, love of irony and respect for storytelling are apparent in her varied

body of work. She works across media to create mosaics, sculptures, paint-

ings drawings and large scale public works. She is represented in public and

private collections, including the City of Melbourne, Museum Victoria, Muse-

um of Ravenna, State Library Victoria, Art Bank, regional galleries, municipal

and school collections. Pamela is a visiting tutor at the Chicago Mosaic

School each year and her course is part of their accreditation program. She

has a Bachelor of Education and an MA from the University of Melbourne.

Kate Jenkins - Australia

An experienced visual artist, trained at Hobart College and Adelaide Jam Fac-

tory Ceramics Workshop, South Australia, Kate has worked across many art

forms from ceramics, oil painting, fabric and works on paper. In 2011 she

teamed up with Kristin Wohlers in Barossa Mosaic to expand her practice

with the art of mosaics. Through her artwork Kate aims to raise awareness

about the importance of biodiversity towards a sustainable environment.

Lea Kannar-Lichtenberger - Australia

Lea graduated as a Master of Fine Art, from SCA (Sydney College of the Arts) Uni-

versity of Sydney in February 2016. In 2014 Lea completed her second residency

in New York at SVA (School of Visual Arts) NatLab (Nature and Technology labor-

atory) in Manhattan. She holds a Master of Studio Arts and a Diploma of Fine Art.

Her 2015 solo exhibition Colliding Worlds at the Hazelhurst Regional Art Gallery,

followed her work being shown in an SVA Alumni show at the Flatiron Building in

Manhattan and at the NYABF at the MOMA annex PS1, New York.

Kelley Knickerbocker - USA

Seattle-based visual artist Kelley Knickerbocker left a 22-year administrative

career at the University of Washington in 2006 to found Rivenworks Mosa-

ics, where she designs and fabricates mosaic artwork for public, commer-

cial, residential and gallery environments. Kelley’s ruggedly dimensional

mosaic artworks are a textural distillation of her fascination with contrast,

material properties and the technical challenges of mosaic construction.

Her work is widely collected and regularly exhibited in the US and abroad.

Cetta Pilati - Australia

Cetta Pilati is a visual artist known for her marble mosaic creations. She completed

her Bachelor of Fine Arts (majoring in Sculpture) at RMIT University, in Victoria in

1992. In 2007 her Italian heritage took her to Ravenna, Italy where she studied tra-

ditional methods and approaches to mosaic art making. Cetta’s pieces hold a for-

gotten simplicity, a quietness and yet a sense of innate strength which emanates

from her application of the traditional mosaic methods. Her inspiration comes from

her innermost feelings.

Bev Plowman - Australia

Bev graduated from a Bachelor of Teaching (Visual Arts) at Melbourne University in

1977 and gained a Graduate Diploma of Early Childhood Education in 1995 and

worked as a visual arts teacher for 16 years. Since 2008 she has been specialising in

large mural projects in schools, kindergartens and the community. Bev’s paintings

and mosaics are greatly inspired by Monet and his experimentation. Pushing the

boundaries, Bev experiments making ‘marks’ in different ways and mediums to create

abstract mosaics and paintings.

Sandy Robertson - Australia

Sandy creates mosaic masterpieces for private commissions, commercial, gallery,

community and public art. Her community projects/mosaic workshops are a testa-

ment to her dedication to share the joy of mosaics with people of all ages, at all plac-

es. Her mantra ‘to go against the mosaic grain’ keeps Sandy on the mosaic edge,

combining modern and ancient mosaic techniques, tools, substrates and materials

to great effect. Mosaic projects are installed at Christmas Island, Norfolk Island,

Queen’s Park, Australia Zoo, Hong Kong, Woorabinda, University of Queensland, Bris-

bane City Council, Marion Valley, Meandarra and Mundubbera, to name a few.

Marian Shapiro - Australia

Marian Shapiro makes original, hand-crafted, contemporary pieces using traditional

techniques which push the boundaries of the mosaic art form. Originally trained in

art and theatre in the UK, she became fascinated by the possibilities of the ancient

art of mosaic and by the creative tension of using ancient techniques and tradition-

al materials to make modern art, often working in series which allows her to explore

a theme in depth. She has been a full-time working artist since 2003 and has partic-

ipated in many group shows, two joint shows and her most recent solo was in 2015

in Sydney. She frequently travels to teach nationally and internationally.

John Sollinger - USA

Solly earned a BS in Forestry in 1977, a PhD in Genetics, 1995, and was awarded

two post-doctoral fellowships to study plant genetics. Since then he has been a

biology professor whose passion for investigating the regulation of patterns in na-

ture has spilled over into a passion for mosaicking those patterns. Solly finds inspi-

ration from impressionist and post-impressionist paintings, especially those by Mo-

net and van Gogh. Light effects and texture reflect this influence on Solly’s work.

He creates illusions of space with coloured pieces, relying on the human tendency

to perceive meaningful patterns from chaotically laid tesserae.

2017 MAANZ SYMPOSIUM Symposium Committee President: Noula Diamantopoulos

Vice President: Pamela Irving

Symposium Coordinator: Sue Leitch

Symposium Sub-Committee Brown Bag Coordinator: Surmani Rose

Delegate Bag Wrangler: Sue Leitch

National Exhibition Coordinators: Fiona Tettman and Bev Plowman

30:30 Exhibition Coordinator: Donna Ritchie

Tessera Exhibition Coordinator: Kaye Gilhooley

Registrations and Treasurer: David Lacey

Salon Coordinator: Marian Shapiro

Speakers Coordinators: Noula Diamantopoulos / Pamela Irving

Vendor Coordinator: Sue Leitch

Volunteer Co-ordinator David Godfrey-Smith

Contact Us President: [email protected] Visit us on the web at www.maanz.org

Our mailing address is: Mosaic Association of Australia

& New Zealand

747 Darling Street Rozelle

Sydney, New South Wales 2039,

Australia

The symposium will be held at the Hobart Function and Conference Centre.

The three exhibitions – National, 30:30 and Tessera will be held in the Salamanca Arts Centre, in

the Long gallery and Sidespace gallery.

A = Hobart Function and Conference Centre, Elizabeth Street Pier, B = Salamanca Arts

C = Waterside Pavilion, D = Brooke Street Pier

Note that disabled access to Salamanca Arts is from the courtyard via Wooby’s Lane

THE MOSAIC ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND

NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING - 2017

The Annual General Meeting of the Association will be held in conjunction with the National Symposium on

Saturday August 19th 2017 from 4.30 –5.15 pm in the Marina Room

Front Page Photo - Mount Welling-

ton. Photo credit Paul Fleming,

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