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Dear MAANZ Members,

Welcome to our special pop-up edition of images from our recent Canberra

symposium exploring the transformative nature of mosaics.

A special thanks to our keynote speaker Dr Claire Barnett and our illustrious line

up of speakers who threw their light and love on this year’s theme. It has taken

me a week to sit with my experience of these extraordinary presentations. All

shared something personal, all moved me in different ways and all were insight-

ful to the role that art has played in their lives. It takes courage to present in this

way and I deeply thank all of you for your vulnerability and sharing.

From the moment the symposium began on Thursday evening with early regis-

tration and the vendors’ market there was a buzz that continued to resonate

throughout the event. From the presentations, exhibition awards night, dinner,

AGM, workshops, and brown bag exchange through to the salon on the Sunday

night. Presenters and participants alike brought a vibrancy and joy into the

shared space. And then for some of you, this continued excitement went into

the magical mystery mosaic tour on the Monday.

I would like to thank everyone for their participation and special thanks to all the

volunteers who helped make this symposium so bubbly. And an additional spe-

cial thanks to everyone on the committee who work so hard all year around and

who I feel at times are the forgotten volunteers. They are MAANZ’s heartbeat.

And if you haven’t heard the news……our next symposium will be in Noosa!

noula MAANZ President

eMag The next eMag isn’t till November, so to tide you over, here is a photo roundup

of symposium highlights. Unless specified, these were all taken by our official

symposium photographer Kathryn Portelli - many thanks Kathryn!

The eMag will return in its usual form in mid November with a fuller symposium

report, plus all the usual articles and some exciting features.

Kim Grant Marian Shapiro eMag Editor Outgoing eMag Editor

National eMag

Special edition

September 2019

In this Issue

Presenters 2

Workshops 7

Delegates 9

Vendors 11

Events 12

Exhibitions 13

Mosaic Mystery Tour

17

2019

Symposium

The Transformative

Nature of Mosaics

University House,

ANU

19th - 23rd

September 2019

Keynote speaker Dr Claire Barnett - USA

John Botica - NZ

Debora Aldo - USA

Pat George - NZ

Caitlin Hepworth - AUS

Noula Diamantopoulos - Aus

Valerie McGarry - Canada

Dugald MacInnes - Scotland

Kelley Knickerbocker - USA

Erin Pankratz - Canada

Solange and Alexandre Piffer - Brazil

Kathryn Portelli - Aus

Heather Vollans—Australia/Canada

Marian Shapiro - Australia

Delegates during the panel discussion

Dr Claire Barnett

Memorial Mosaics: Best practices for working with the

grieving

Dr Claire Barnett

Sticky Plastic Tricks and other Wonders of the

Double Indirect Method

Debora Aldo

Iterative Mosaic Design

John Botica

Introduction to Pebble Mosaics

Kelley Knickerbocker The Shape of Things to Come: Fast, fun abstract mosaic elements

Valerie McGarry Creating Gradation of Colour with Smalti and Stone

Solange Piffer Flower workshop; making flower mosaics in

the Solange Piffer style

Heather Vollans Material Matters

Erin Pankratz Introduction to Tinted Mortars

Top to bottom

NSW

NZ

QLD

Top to bottom

SA

TAS

VIC

WA

Clockwise from top left

Cetta Pilati: The Marble Tesserae Store

Beate Linckelmann: Mosaic Bazaar

Kate Butler: The Oro Prize

David Lacey: Smalti Australia

Helen Harman: Artopia

Participants line up for the brown bag exchange

Bidding gets underway at the salon

Happy buyers and sellers

Best in Show

Another Brick in the Wall Marian Shapiro

Jurors: Dr Claire Barnett

Kim Emerson

Erin Pankratz

Judges: Dr Claire Barnett

Dugald MacInnes

Erin Pankratz

New Horizons Award

Unearthed

Sandra Robertson

Judges Choice: Dr Claire Barnett

April Keogh The Rock Behind the Man

Judges Choice: Erin Pankratz

Geoffrey Odgers

Water, Earth, Stone

Judges Choice: Dugald MacInnes

Helen Blackman

Tossed Aside

Peer Award

Inge Gardner

A Slice of History: Ammonidea

First Prize Annie Balcomb

Anima Mundi – The Soul of the World


Dugald MacInnes

Erin Pankratz

Second Prize Danka Scholtz von Lorenz

Next Spring Perhaps

First Prize Ashleigh Retmock

Ouroboros


Dugald MacInnes

Erin Pankratz

Second Prize Lydia McKechnie

Inferno

Third Prize Lily Boersma

Fireworks

Expansion

Mural by Margo Lewers

Rex Hotel, Canberra

Photo credit: David Lacey

Dalle de Verre Window by Leonard French

National Library of Australia, Canberra

Photo credit: Valerie McGarry

Detail: Shell Mosaic

The Australian War Memorial

Photo credit: Marian Shapiro

Detail of forecourt mosaic by Michael Nelson Jagamara in

front of New Parliament House

Photo credit: Wendy Tanner

Detail: Hellenic Memorial

Anzac Parade, beside the Australian War

Memorial

Photo credit: Marian Shapiro

Detail of glass mosaic fountain and timeline. De-

signed by Andrew Smith and Kate Riley, fabricated

by Mary Stuart. Old Parliament House garden


Napier Waller mosaic and windows

Hall of Memory, Canberra War Memorial


Detail: The Dock mosaic, Caitlin Hepworth

Dock Restaurant, Kingston, Canberra

Photo credit: Caitlin Hepworth

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