World-renowned Altona-based artist Julee Latimer is inviting people to help create a community mosaic as part of Hobsons Bay’s Art in Public Places program.
Running over the next month, the program showcases 60 exhibitions and events by western region artists, presented at more than 60 venues throughout Hobsons Bay.
Latimer’s free open studio sessions are on April 6 and 12, from 10am-2pm.
Latimer (pictured) says people can wander through her mosaic garden and, if they choose, take part in cutting tiles and placing them on a community mosaic.
“It’s going to be a large funky flower and that’s specifically because it’s going to go into the courtyard of St George’s residential-care home [in Altona Meadows],” Latimer says. “The reason I’ve chosen them to donate to this year is that I saw an article in one of the newspapers a long time ago where they were talking about fund-raising for their courtyard garden and I noticed it just seemed to be bare brick walls. It looked very sad.”
Latimer will also have mosaic lizard exhibits at Les Fleurs Florist opposite Altona station and at nearby Melissa’s Cafe in Pier Street. Her third work, a mosaic armchair that took 100 hours to make, will be exhibited in the foyer of the Hobsons Bay civic centre. Titled
Rosaic, the rose-emblazoned armchair is a tribute to Latimer’s grandmother and their time spent picking rose petals to make rose water.
