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International Presenters

Luca Barberini
Keynote Speaker, Workshop Presenter
Luca Barberini was born in Ravenna 1981. He has grown up and developed as an artist in a city that owes much of its world fame to Paleo-Christian and Byzantine mosaics, absorbing and transforming these influences in his own distinctive contemporary practice.

Luca graduated from the Istituto Statale d’Arte Gino Severini in 2000 and continued his studies with practical mosaic experience, eventually co-founding the well known Ravenna studio Koko Mosaico with his wife, Arianna Gallo.

Luca has developed a unique reductive style of figurative mosaic, through which he conveys messages about such pressing global issues as climate change and the asylum seeker crisis, exploring sometimes ironic and humorous insights into the human condition.

Luca has participated in significant solo and group exhibitions in national and international European and Asian contexts including Bologna, Mantova, Rome, Venice, Paray le Monial, Frankfurt/ Słubice, Dallas, Taipei, Yokohama, Kyoto and Tokyo.

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Tamara Froud
Plenary Speaker, Workshop Presenter
Tamara is an award winning London based mosaic artist dedicated to bringing mosaic art to a wider audience. After chancing upon mosaics in 1999 following a stint of teaching English and travelling, the resulting short, unpaid apprenticeship was an experience that changed her life. She has never looked back!

In her first mosaic job, she learned the value of involving communities in the mosaic process;  something that she returns to again and again in her projects and public art installations. Through her company Mosaic Art Ltd, she combines her skills in teaching and mosaic and has created and installed mosaics in the UK and internationally. Along the way she has worked with thousands of children and adults of all ages and abilities to create site-specific mosaic installatio

Monash University Museum of Art | MUMA has announced the debut exhibition of Australian-born, New York–based designer Visnja Brdar. Visnja Brdar: Design Exalted will be Australia’s first significant exhibition of a female graphic designer and will profile the remarkable thirty-seven-year career of a design visionary in an exhibition exclusive to MUMA which opens from 11 April to 15 June 2024.

Drawing on Brdar’s design archive and celebrating the designer’s important role in  contemporary design communication, the exhibition coincides with the first monograph on Brdar’s work co published by MUMA and Powerhouse Publishing.

Rebecca Coates, Director of MUMA, comments, “Visnja Brdar’s story is a testament to the power of design in  shaping narratives and transcending boundaries. Having worked with some of the world’s leading brands, her  design practice is singular, exemplified by its independence, elegance, simplicity and dynamism. We are delighted  to present this important exhibition and provide an opportunity for audiences to gain an insight into the evolution of  this internationally recognised force in design.”

Curated by Hannah Mathews, formerly Senior Curator MUMA, and now Director/CEO Perth Institute of  Contemporary Arts, MUMA’s exhibition will showcase Brdar’s groundbreaking graphic and creative direction work  across the fields of architecture, art, real estate, fashion and lifestyle; from her influential real estate campaigns in  post–financial crisis New York to her iconic designs for Estée Lauder, Bill Blass, Armani, Issey Miyake and  Jil Sander.

The exhibition will also explore the meticulous artistry and sophistication within Brdar’s brand identity, collateral,  book design, packaging, jewellery, and creative direction projects, underlying her commitment to design as a  form of storytelling. In addition, new works of art and personal notebooks will be made pu

Three discreet patches of colourful tiles stood out on a wall in Duckboard Place in Melbourne. From their QR codes, I learnt they were the work of Mosaic Mofos, a Canberra-based art collective. Seeing three fresh mosaic pieces kicked this post off: guerrilla artists who cover bare walls in tiles. Street art mosaics, like yarn bombing or guerrilla gardening, are amongst the more acceptable forms of street art. Also amongst the rarest.

Like most of Melbourne’s street art mosaics, they have been done by visitors to the city. In 2002, the visiting French street artist Invader was the first to apply 25 unauthorised tiles to exterior walls in Melbourne. Invader made his name by creating tiled versions of the low-fi 8-bit graphic images from early computer games like Space Invader. Since then, others could easily copy and imitate his open-source art. I’m unsure if all these are works by Invader or other artists using 8-bit images. Possibly, the only Melbourne-based street artist working with ceramic mosaics is Far4WasHere.

Mosaics have been used since the 3rd millennium BCE, but probably well before then. They can comprise ceramic tiles, glass, stone, bottle caps, buttons, and plastic, a near-eternal substance. These materials’ durability makes them perfect for outdoor art.

Mosaics have been a common aspect of urban outdoor public art in Melbourne since the nineteenth century. Mosaic Association of Australia and New Zealand (MAANZ) and Melbourne Mural Studios have a map of significant Melbourne mosaics that includes many traditional commissioned paving and murals but also works by street artists, Invader (listed as Space Invader), and (Sunfigo’s) Parrot, as well as the mosaic-covered sculptures of Deborah Halpern, Ophelia and Angel. It does not include the many local councils who have commissioned mosaics depicting local scenes set in the footpath, a mapping project for an extreme Melbourne mosaic fanatic.