Fibonacci Project - 2023-24
Concrete stencilling and mosaic collaboration with Guy Crosley - Uralla, NSW
Uralla’s Fibonacci Park Project came about from Kent Mayo recognising that Uralla’s postcode is the only postcode in Australia to have 4 consecutive numbers from the Fibonacci sequence, 2, 3, 5, 8.
I have been working in collaboration with park concept designer and mosaic artist Guy Crosley from the Mid North Coast to bring the park’s creative elements to life. We started in October 2023, laid the 100m concrete path, and completed it in February 2024.
The next phase was to start the mosaic work on the four scaled standing pillars, highlighting sequences 2, 3, 5, and 8. The pillars feature muralised pictorial mosaic scenes on one side and geometric representations of Fibonacci themes on the other. The edges and tops of the pillars feature tile images designed by Christine Ball, a long-term friend and Uralla potter. The tiles depict a portrait image of the twelfth-century Italian mathematician Leonardo Fibonacci and Uralla’s postcode numbers in eight different language scripts.
Concrete path construction
Steel and zinc stencils and stamps adapted from local children’s drawings by local fabricator and artist Rick Tait.
Stencils designed by Guy and fabricated by Rick Tait laid onto the wet concrete.
One of the first completed sections of path. Each day we would complete a 10 meter section.
Neo Crosley and Ellis Bell artist collaborators on the path.
Section of completed path after turf laid.
Path complete prior to mosaics.
Mosaic pillar construction
Glaze tests laid out for analysis
Guy settles into making large panel
I start to lay out geometric 2 panel
Guy surveys mid point of painting panel
Guy and I start paper facing large geometric panel
Completed pictorial face of pillars
Completed geometric face of pillars