There has been much interest and discussion about our new sculpture "Three Wise Men". The sculpture was designed by Marian Cacianiga and has involved hundreds of hours of work - from research, design, model construction, framework construction, wire mesh wrapping, fibreglass coating, cement rendering to the final mosaic process.
Arts Victoria funded a three day workshop with visiting artist Glenda Cornell, who travelled from Shepparton to teach us how apply render and mosaic the sculpture. A large number of community members committed many hours during the three day workshop. The sculpture is not yet complete and work to finish it will recommence once another load of Winstone cement from Canada has been sourced.
Thank you to Rodney Caccianiga and Sam White for welding together the framework. Thank you to all those who were involved in wire and fiberglass mesh wrapping and/or the render/mosaic processes including Max, Maria, Cheryse, Pat Ryan, Freule, Diane Plant, Sharon Trewin, Cathy, Donna McKenzie, Marie Ryan, Leonie Lambert, Libby, Cheryse, Cheryl, Chris Plant, Cathy, Kay Wright, Donna Barry, Jan, Trudy, Joan Holmes, Rachelle, Kelly, Noah and Finn.
A special thank you to Leonie Lambert for generously donating badges for embedding into the sculptures. The badges, which belonged to her parents, showed the family commitment to many Manangatang organisations. See how many you can find embedded on the sculpture.
1. Sharon, Noah, Marian and Cheryse applying the first of three cement coatings using the 'plastic wrap' technique.
2.Freule (chief concrete mixer) and Marie get stuck into mixing coloured concrete for the final layer.
3.Cheryl, Noreen and Cheryse slapping on the first coat of concrete.
Contributed by Noreen Jones
