Evi Ferrier’s hobby has literally taken over her house with the external and internal walls covered with mosaics of broken tiles, plates, ceramics and mirrors. The mosaic creations include a tea tree outside made up of teapots and a tea fountain where a wall is set up with irrigation tubes pumping water out of the spouts of teapots into the collage of cups below.
Mosaic technique
There is a range of mosaic techniques but one simple method is to coat the back of the ceramic piece with a ceramic adhesive. Place the ceramic piece on the wall and gently hit it with a hammer to mould the ceramic to the contours of the wall. Leave it to dry before grouting.
How it all started
The mosaic work began when the house needed painting. Evi couldn’t decide on a colour so she started covering the walls with ceramics like the mosaic pots she made for her children’s school fair. Part of her philosophy is that anything can be recycled and she hates to see things go to waste, so old crockery can take on a new life in a mosaic. Evi has a vision of mosaic being used right across Australia and believes there isn’t a house that couldn’t be improved with a bit of mosaic work to brighten it up. As a community project any object or building could be brightened with mosaic. Because of its therapeutic benefits, Evi believes it would cut down on vandalism, unemployment and mental health as well as enabling people’s broken treasures to be immortalised on their walls.