Carolyn Cardinet: Visual Art Blog

48 artists are represented at this year Yarra Sculpture Gallery Art Prize Opening 4-7pm this Saturday 12 December 201 2015 Participating Artists Fredrick White Louis Balis Heinz Boeck Aneta Bozic Tanja George David Waters Tas Wansbrough Sione Francis Liz Walker Helen Braun Maggie Brown Penny Algar Veronica Caven Aldous Conrad Clark Robert Waghorn Brendon Taylor Takahiko Sugawara Kerry Strauss Andrew Paul Smith Maria Simonelli Faustas Sadaustas Stephanie Robinson Katerina Richardson Jackie Ralph Herbz Rah Anna Prifti Merle Parker Linda Oy Ho Deidre Oliver Akiko Nagino Tracey Lamb Katherine Marmaras Richard Monger Robert Mihajlovski Anne-Marie Kuter Glen Jackson Paul Gorman Felicity Gordon Ernst Fries Julian Martino Yuko Dora Justine Cromb Betty Collier iChing2 Carolyn Cardinet Katy Bowman Suzanne Kaldor Cliff Burtt

Wednesday 25 November 2015, 11.00 am  to  Thursday 31 December 2015, 11.00 pm Carolyn Cardinet's  Like and oil spill, plastic never goes away  is an all black immersive installation comprising assorted discarded black plastic and fibreglass PVC mesh. The exhibition space is transformed into a window that reflects on the state of the ocean seabed. This work is assembled out of the black plastic that Cardinet has collected from Port Phillip Bay and gleaned from the streets around her studio. As the artist states, "Most of the plastic ‘detritus’ appearing in the work passed through someone's hands, used only once before being discarded in the overflowing bins of our city streets before washing up on our shores. The work explicitly asks 'how much more plastic do we need?' With current rates of consumption we are arguably at a point of no return. One can easily foresee the whole sea, like this installation, being strewn with debris that will never disappe...