Mosaic workshop australia

5 day Mosaic Workshop - BOOK NOW!

Studio OzMosaics Brisbane: 2023
Mosaic Mural                                                
5 day Mosaic Workshop 
max 6 students

Dates, Cost, Project Info, Prices etc to be advised for 2023 
If you are interested in making a mosaic mural over 5-6 days, contact us for more info.

Beginners or experienced mosaicists wishing to learn Sandy's mosaic tips & tricks!

*A fabulous week of mosaic making in Coorparoo, Brisbane, Queensland Australia!
* Lots of fun, excitement and of course mosaics!
* Learn many mosaic methods and exciting techniques.  

WHAT WILL YOU MAKE?  To be advised.

This 5 day workshop enables students to create a hanging, mosaic mural on Mosaic Board or cement sheeting.

Learn to create mosaic designs + colour + andamento.
Combine materials such as smalti, jewellery, ceramic, glass, mirror, slate, stone and more!
Lessons will include the use of all mosaic tools, including hands-on use of jigsaw, wet saw and hammer and hardie.
Methods will include mosaic on mesh, direct, undulating substrates and Marmox reshaped.
Sandy shares her amazing tips + tricks including 3D + special effects.
Experience pique assiette Sandy style with thinset, epoxy paste, Mac glue, Weldbond plus sanded and epoxy tinted grouts.
Students may wish to keep their mosaic to a suitable size if shipping home after the workshop. (Discuss with Sandy after booking in).
Students should expect to complete their mosaic in 5 days but it's ok to complete at home.

Each day will have a mix of mosaic instruction & samples - with ample afternoon time to work on your mosaic project.

Feedback from past 5 day workshops:

Photos below are of past 5 day workshops at OzMosaics Studio, Coorparoo Brisbane Qld Australia.

Thanks to all who attended!

The 6 students had a wonderful time!  

Thanks so much to everyone who attended this mosaic workshop. Students came from Perth, New Zealand, NSW and Queensland to experience a week of mosaics with Sandy.  The wet saw demo was a great success and one student Carol, was totally into cutting her plates, vases, cups etc for a beautiful mosaic Florist Shop mural for her home, inspired by Oliver Budd.  A mosaic zebra, 2 mosaic mirrors, a mosaic garden rock, New Zealand flowers and other mosaics were in the making during the mosaic week.  
Lots of time was spent by Sandy demonstrating mosaic techniques, sharing tips and tricks and we also found time to run a few mini mosaic computer sessions - the students were very interested to learn how to enlarge designs, photos etc for their mosaic murals etc. Happy times were spent sharing food, wine and conversation on Sandy's Queenslander deck after the workshop.  We had two guests stay in our B & B, thanks to Shar and George for your company, friendship and of course mosaic enthusiasm!

Student feedback: 
by Margaret Laasonen WA (thank you Margaret, hope to see you again soon!) hugs Sandy

In January I was lucky to attend a week long Mosaic Marathon Workshop run by Sandy Robertson in Brisbane. 

I first met Sandy 6 or 7 years ago on Norfolk Island when she was an artist in residence for a mural project to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Pit Cairn Islanders arrival on Norfolk Island and always said one day that I would visit her studio in Brisbane on my way home from one of my annual visits to Norfolk Is. This course was timed just right and what a full-on week of mosaicking it was!

Sandy and her husband Dave live in a big Queenslander house in the hills just south of Brisbane. Backing board and vase ready.

They have accommodation for out of town students (with full board as an option) and I had the upstairs 'Diva suite', and downstairs was a lovely 'granny flat' used by Penny from Adelaide. The house and garden were more like an art gallery, full of Sandy's mosaics. Downstairs was completely given over to the mosaic classes, a large air conditioned studio which led out to a lovely pool, a well-supplied shop and a work area which was Dave's domain.

Sunday, our first class and we were in the studio by 8:30am - our mission (project) - to make a 3D vase of flowers on a black cement board with the tiles we were given and any wine bottle, old china plates, cups, mugs, beads, copper wire, mirror glass from the 3d elements create the composition. Huge stacks of stuff that Sandy had on shelves, in shopping trolleys , in buckets and jars, around the garden and studio.The most important thing we had to use was the thinset, a 2 part latex mortar adhesive, the mainstay to building a 3D design. We had to use black for our vase of flowers but the latex can be mixed with white or coloured grout to achieve any colour. We learnt how to smash wine bottles to use for leaves, cut petals from china, pipe thinset to be part of the design, make stamens from copper wire, and much more.

Just as well I didn't want to work on my own project, there was so much going on,Sandy would buzz around from student to student calling out to come and see how to do this and how to fix that, it was a real hands on learning experience. There was a wonderful camaraderie among the eight students. We actually worked quite hard but loved what we were doing, laughed lots and had fun !

Sandy and Dave are a great team, Sandy our inspiration and motivator with Dependable Dave as support to cut boards, prep substrates,  find stuff, serve morning tea and lunch by the pool, prepare great dinners, fix tools, run to the shops for French Champagne.

By Tuesday we had added butler to Dave's list of jobs and he brought champagne, glasses, and nibbles down to the studio every day at 5:00pm !

Friday arvo arrived all too soon, Dave carefully packed precious projects for their trips home, and we celebrated a wonderful week of mosaics, new friends and great fun with Indian takeaway, and of course champagne, on the lovely Queenslander verandah.I flew home to Perth on Saturday full of inspiration and even more enthusiastic for my hobby of mosaics. I'm sure I'll be detouring to the OzMosaics studio on another trip to Norfolk Island soon.  Happy Mosaicing, Margaret

Imagine working on your mosaic every day, no packing up each night, sharing mosaic stories, adventures with other mosaic enthusiasts and having a wonderful time at OzMosaics Studio!

 Photo courtesty of Gail (c)

8 students (Virginia, Penny, Sara, Gail, Denise, Lesley, Margaret, Stephanie with Sandy Robertson and Nick Collett from Laticrete) enjoying a fun and informative time with Laticrete epoxy grout demo!

Photo courtesy of Gail (c)
Gail is delighted to report that her mosaic on fibreglass mesh to decorate her front "entry site'" fits and will be installed soon!  Great news!  Can't wait for photos of installed mosaic.  It travelled back to Biloela well and Sandy explained to Gail how to ensure "the pieces stay put" during the drive home.  Can't wait to see what Gail does with the torso she poured here during the workshop.  Her letter "A" mosaic, which Dave cut out of our mOzboard (light weight board) looks scrumptious decorated with mosaic, featuring 3-D and the push-in to cement method.  The 5 day workshop was not just about making a mosaic, but working on samples of methods, watching many mosaic tutorials and demos by Sandy and being "inspired beyond belief". 


Champagne + Thai Food after the workshop! Photo courtesty of Gail (c)