A narrative about beginnings, combined with an instructional text to create mosaic using broken crockery.
Abundant illustrations convey the circumstances and describe community engagement in a small town in the Australian outback.
Broken crockery cemented by friendship to create a community of artists.
Andamooka, in South Australia’s arid zone, is famous for Opal fossils from the Mesozoic Era.
During the Covid times, Andamooka artists didn’t fossilise, they created. One of Andamooka’s creatives is Trish.
Trish is a long-term resident of Andamooka, a local with a recent immersion in mosaic art.
During 2018 and 2019 (pre-Covid time), Trish participated in mosaic workshops and exhibited in Andamooka’s SALA (South Australian Living Artists) Festival Exhibition. More than six hundred kilometres from the capital city of Adelaide, Andamooka is a small community with a population of 316 (according to the 2016 census).
Andamooka Boo-teek is an award-winning opportunity shop managed by the CWA (Country Women’s Association) members. The Andamooka Boo-teek offers second-hand clothes, toys and furniture for sale. Also, kitchen utensils, including crockery. Crockery for mosaic!
Trish had a chat with the CWA team and struck up a deal for first refusal of incomplete dinner sets or any crockery that was chipped or broken, rather than those chipped items going to landfill.
Trish collected and sorted; grouped stacks of crockery according to colour/texture and stored her crockery and collected some more.
Kitchen and bathroom tiles from the local dump were transported home; cleaned, sorted and stacked.
Andamooka people are resourceful and resilient and quite used to repurposing and recreating. Trish put the word around that she was looking for glass, tile and crockery and the donations flooded in. This amount of support for Trish’s desire to learn a new skill could be because Trish is always helpful to others.
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