A photograph of Helen Campbell working on Crack'd for Christchurch's armchair artwork.Crack'd for Christchurch comments, "Slow progress. Sometimes we thought we'd never get her finished. We were all battling our own earthquake consequences: losing homes and jobs, battling with insurers, illnesses and repairs. It was a long winter. But the conversation, food, laughter, and company were wonderful. An unforgettable experience."
A photograph of Helen Campbell and Marie Hudson working on Crack'd for Christchurch's armchair artwork.Crack'd for Christchurch comments, "Slow progress. Sometimes we thought we'd never get her finished. We were all battling our own earthquake consequences: losing homes and jobs, battling with insurers, illnesses and repairs. It was a long winter. But the conversation, food, laughter, and company were wonderful. An unforgettable experience."
A photograph of members of Crack'd for Christchurch taking a break. The team have been working on their armchair artwork in a garage.Crack'd for Christchurch comments, "February 2014. The work continues through the summer and into the winter. From left: Jayne White, Marie Hudson, Jennie Cooper, and Helen Campbell."
A photograph of members of Crack'd for Christchurch posing around their armchair artwork.Crack'd for Christchurch comments, "February 2014. The work continues through the summer and into the winter. From left: Jennie Cooper, Jayne White, Jenny Cooper, Marie Hudson, and Helen Campbell."
A photograph of members of Crack'd for Christchurch working on their armchair artwork.Crack'd for Christchurch comments, "February 2014. The work continues through the summer and into the winter. From left: Jennie Cooper, Helen Campbell, Jayne White, Sharon Wilson, and Marie Hudson."
A photograph of Sharon Wilson removing excess adhesive from between the tiles of a flower mosaic. The flower mosaic is part of Crack'd for Christchurch's armchair artwork.Crack'd for Christchurch comments, "A tedious process."
A photograph of Jayne White preparing lunch for the Crack'd for Christchurch team. The team are working on their armchair artwork in a garage.Crack'd for Christchurch comments, "February 2014. The work continues through the summer and into winter."
A photograph of Jenny Cooper taking a break in front of the Crack'd for Christchurch armchair artwork. The Crack'd for Christchurch team have been working on the artwork in a garage.Crack'd for Christchurch comments, "February 2014. The work continues through the summer and into the winter."
A photograph of members of Crack'd for Christchurch working on their armchair artwork.Crack'd for Christchurch comments, "February 2014. The work continues through the summer and into the winter. From left: Jennie Cooper, Marie Hudson, Jayne White, Helen Campbell, and Sharon Wilson."
A photograph of Sharon Wilson removing excess adhesive from between the tiles of a flower mosaic. The flower mosaic is part of Crack'd for Christchurch's armchair artwork.Crack'd for Christchurch comments, "A tedious process."
A photograph of Crack'd for Christchurch's armchair artwork with several mosaic flowers attached.Crack'd for Christchurch comments, "The end of a huge day's work."
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 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 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 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."