A photograph of a section of Crack'd for Christchurch's armchair mosaic.Crack'd for Christchurch comments, "Beautiful."
A photograph of Helen Campbell adding grout to Crack'd for Christchurch's armchair mosaic.Crack'd for Christchurch comments, "The very first grout goes on and suddenly the chair comes alive."
A photograph of Katherine O'Connor and Helen Campbell adding grout to Crack'd for Christchurch's armchair mosaic.Crack'd for Christchurch comments, "The very first grout goes on and suddenly the chair comes alive."
A photograph of Helen Campbell and Katherine O'Connor adding grout to Crack'd for Christchurch's armchair mosaic.Crack'd for Christchurch comments, "September 2014. Spring is here. Grouting."
A photograph of Katherine O'Connor adding grout to Crack'd for Christchurch's armchair mosaic.Crack'd for Christchurch comments, "September 2014. Spring is here. Grouting."
A photograph of Helen Campbell using a tool to remove excess grout from Crack'd for Christchurch's armchair mosaic.
A photograph of a flower which is part of Crack'd for Christchurch's armchair mosaic.Crack'd for Christchurch comments, "Grout still wet around a flower. Ungrouted area to the right."
A photograph of Helen Campbell working on Crack'd for Christchurch's armchair mosaic.Crack'd for Christchurch comments, "Finishing edges and fine details before grouting."
A photograph of Kathryn Innes working on Crack'd for Christchurch's armchair mosaic.Crack'd for Christchurch comments, "Finishing edges and fine details before grouting."
A photograph of Kathryn Innes and Katherine O'Connor working on Crack'd for Christchurch's armchair mosaic.Crack'd for Christchurch comments, "Finishing edges and fine details before grouting."
A photograph of Helen Campbell working on Crack'd for Christchurch's armchair mosaic.Crack'd for Christchurch comments, "Finishing edges and fine details before grouting."
A photograph of Helen Campbell adding grout to Crack'd for Christchurch's armchair mosaic while Kathryn Innes looks on.Crack'd for Christchurch comments, "September 2014. Spring is here. Grouting."
A digital copy of a plan for Crack'd for Christchurch's armchair artwork. The plan shows three views of an armchair from different angles.
A digital copy of a concept drawing of Crack'd for Christchurch's armchair and ottoman artworks. The drawing is of an armchair and an ottoman. A written note near the bottom of the drawing reads, "Cast iron legs sources from Victorian bath tubs".
A photograph of the steel frame of Crack'd for Christchurch's armchair artwork.Crack'd for Christchurch comments, "Mid September 2013. The chair frame was made by Bob Hamilton from Total Fabrications. It is shown here with Chris Raateland who did a lot of heavy lifting for Crack'd."
A photograph of a half-finished flower mosaic. The mosaic has been made out of pieces of broken china which have been laid over a paper design. Mesh has also been placed over the design so that it can be transferred easily to Crack's for Christchurch's concrete chair. Other pieces of china are scattered around the mosaic.Crack'd for Christchurch comments, "Marie begins the very first flower. It is so difficult and time consuming that we are all in despair. Will this take forever? No-one is getting paid and we all have jobs and lives in some chaos thanks to the earthquakes."
A photograph of Marie Hudson in Crack'd for Christchurch's workshop. Behind her, boxes of broken china have been stacked on a shelf. Hudson is wearing painters overalls and rubber gloves, and is holding a teacup.Crack'd for Christchurch comments, "The famous grey overalls. This all we would see Marie in for the next year."
A photograph of Jonathan Hall, Marie Hudson, and Jenny Cooper in Crack'd for Christchurch's workshop.Crack'd for Christchurch comments, "It is August 2013, two and a half years since the big quake. We have a plan, we have a tiny bit of funding, and we have commissioned the chair framework. From left: Jenny Cooper, Marie Hudson, and Jonathan Hall (chair engineer of Greening the Rubble)."
A photograph of members of Crack'd for Christchurch in their workshop in the Christchurch central city. In the background there are boxes of broken china.Crack'd for Christchurch comments, "From left: Shirley Walden and Marie Hudson."
A photograph of Jenny Cooper laying out mosaic designs on the floor of Crack'd for Christchurch's workshop.Crack'd for Christchurch comments, "August 2013. Some of the motifs designed by Jenny Cooper."
A photograph of a pile of mosaic designs on a table. Next to the designs are a plate of scones and two hot drinks.Crack'd for Christchurch comments, "There is always good food around when Crack'd gets together."
A photograph of a cast iron bath foot.Crack'd for Christchurch comments, "Jenny bought eight Victorian cast iron bath feet from Trade Me and stripped them back."
A photograph of cast iron bath feet sitting on newspaper on a kitchen bench.Crack'd for Christchurch comments, "Jenny bought eight Victorian cast iron bath feet from Trade Me."
A photograph of Jenny Cooper labelling boxes of broken china in Crack'd for Christchurch's workshop.Crack'd for Christchurch comments, "Jenny Cooper always labelling, labelling, labelling."
A photograph of cast iron bath feet sitting on top of a washing machine.Crack'd for Christchurch comments, "Jenny bought eight Victorian cast iron bath feet from Trade Me."
A photograph of Marie Hudson attaching a flower mosaic to Crack'd for Christchurch's armchair artwork. Below, Jenny Cooper is polishing another flower mosaic.Crack'd for Christchurch comments, "Marie makes it look easy."
A photograph of Marie Hudson attaching a flower mosaic to Crack'd for Christchurch's armchair artwork.Crack'd for Christchurch comments, "Marie makes it look easy."
A photograph of a mosaic flower on Crack'd for Christchurch's armchair artwork.Crack'd for Christchurch comments, "Once the flowers were on the chair, excess adhesive had to be cleaned off. Ideally this was done the next day, once the adhesive had dried but not cured."
A photograph of members of Crack'd for Christchurch preparing to attach one of the flower mosaics to their armchair artwork.Crack'd for Christchurch comments, "Mosaic adhesive goes on to the concrete chair (which has been sealed and primed). We also put mosaic adhesive on the back of each flower."
A photograph of Jenny Cooper positioning paper mosaic designs on Crack'd for Christchurch's armchair artwork.Crack'd for Christchurch comments, "January 2014. Jenny Cooper begins the design of the chair 'fabric'. The chair has to be finished by September."
