General News
13 May, 2025
Adding splash of colourful style to main street
MOSAICS are now delighting both locals and visitors to Front Street in Mossman.
In May, the Douglas Shire Council contracted Sam Matthews and Leanne Emmitt to deliver a community art mosaic project for the town.
“The ‘canvas’ for the project was the pedestrian traffic control walls on the corners of Front and William streets,” Ms Emmitt said.
“The project involved two walls, one approximately 15m long and the other roughly 18m m long,” she said.
The chosen theme for the mosaic was the ‘abundance of insects in our tropical environment’, which is a continuation of the theme that inspired the mosaics for the Front Street planter boxes, created by Douglas Arts Base (DAB) mosaicists several years ago to help enliven the town.
These new mosaics also followed on from ‘Life Amongst the Trees’, a celebration of birds mosaic that adorns the toilet block at the Rex Smeal Park in Port Douglas.
“The theme of this recent Mossman project aims to encourage positive interaction and appreciation of the insects that play such a vital role in our environment,” Ms Emmitt said.
Contributors to the project include 69 ceramic decorators collectively decorating about 700 hand-made ceramic pieces, 46 mosaic artists, 24 Haiku poets, five ceramic artists/makers, seven installation helpers and 11 Kuku Yalanji language helpers.
The Douglas Shire Council will now install wooden slats in the spaces between the mosaic sections to match with the mosaic planter boxes on the opposite side of Front Street.
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