Clay tiles
Scotch College Year 9 art students
Title: Clay tiles
Artist/s: Scotch College Year 9 art students
Year: 2003
Category: Tiles
Site: Swanbourne Station
Location Details: Swanbourne Station - eastern platform
Description:
15 framed clay tiles hang along the western platform wall. Students from nearby Scotch College developed an overlapping design to create the tiles by carving away area and adding thin clay slabs as well as adding sprigged, incised and impressed textures and decorations to the surface. The tiles were finished with an oxide wash using iron, copper, cobalt and manganese oxides with some frit to seal the surface. On the eastern platform two murals located above the seating area were painted based on the same drawing exercise used for the clay tiles.
Artist/s Statement:
Both the clay tiles and the murals were developed after research at the WA Museum and Lake Claremont. 3D art class students studied the ecology, flora and fauna that was indigenous to the area before white settlement and drawings were made of native species of plants and animals found in the Swanbourne area.