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Bonanza 2016 exhibition

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Bonanza 2016 is on at the  Yarra Sculpture Gallery  The opening is this saturday 3-5pm all welcome   117 Vere St, Abbotsford   Abbotsford ​  Exhibition Dec 8-18 2016   www.contemporarysculptorsassociation.org.au

Immerse Art Festival at Knox

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For Immerse Art Festival I have chosen to exhibit at Knox Community Arts Centre a work titled Fan-Tastic. This work has been developing for the last 2 years. Finding and collecting new plastic means adding new pieces to Fan-Tastic, a massive wave of circular plastic assemblage. Single-use plastic are the plague of the last 60 years spreading over the past 2 centuries as we consume them at a rapid rate for 5-20mns and then throw them away. But where do they actually go?  Out of sight doesn't mean away away as society slowly is realising this fact, plastic is now coming to haunt us because plastic doesn't disappear... It stays and it lays there polluting in full sight our landscapes around the world contributing to gigantic open air dumps created to hide and get rid of our massive plastic consumption. Plastic also floats in our oceans which harms our sea life as they feed on it. Fan-Tastic represents some of the beautiful sea creatures disapearing in our oceans. 

Back from a whirlwind trip in Europe

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While jet lagged I am writing a quick note to say that am back online and in the flesh in Australia. I have seen new and old sites that took my breath away, I have laughed and been myself as I had not done in many years, I have enjoyed and discovered many foods, I have seen many old friends and family and encountered and befriended people from all parts of the globe, I have been on adventures on uncharted territories and left traces of my passage there through my art installation but most of all I blessed my time overseas...France-Spain-Portugal you unveiled your true European beauty and it is with this message of gratitude that in the next posts I will reveal the works I could achieve whilst away in my artist residency in Spain at Can Serrat at the bottom of this gigantic mountain 'Montserrat'.

Leaving Australia

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Whaaaat! but just for a few weeks as am off to an artist residency in Spain I am getting exited to inpregnate myself with my new surroundings culture and art while bathing myself in this new autumn sunlight. I shall be off the grid for the next 6 weeks and will let you know all about it upon my return... Hasta la Vista! Meanwhile...

Artist residency 2016 and exhibition

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It is that time of the year again and I am getting prepared to go on my 2016 Can Serrat artist residency in Spain at the bottom of Mount Serrat 40kms away from Barcelona this September. I am very excited to refresh my artist soul, fill my image library and see what else is out there plus visit my family and friends in Paris and later on in Portugal. I will be developing new series influenced by my surroundings as I would like to surrender to my new environment and I cannot wait to show you the results as I will go dark for the next 6 weeks and will live a life of serenity without any social media (so she says)... Upon my return, I will hang a large work in 'Immerse'.Thisexhibition program, features acclaimed and emerging artists. 30 exhibitions over 30 days in 30 venues divided between 6 curators in Knox city so keep your ears open... Till then keep SAFE and keep SANE - be creative no matter what!  Organic Plastic at Unicorn Lane Gallery Ballarat (detail) on 24/7 t

Organic Plastic

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All works are installed in Ballarat. Organic Pladtic is an ensemble of white plastic detritus assembled and twined with organic matter the show is on till 29 Sept at the Unicorn Lane Gallery in Ballarat. The installation team - great work team

Post GSPF 2016

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Today I thought I would bring some night shots of my work present at the Gettrude Street Projection Festival 2016 to you... Swarming 2016 This project was based on the flimsy plastic packaging used in our society. Five large jellyfish graced the Atherton Gardens at the intersection of Brunswick & Getrudes streets.  During the day this installation of a ngels could be seen floating in the trees. Juxtaposing the organic and the influence of the affluent plastic getting trapped within our natural environment.

Maquettes to see the light in Ballarat

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Organic Plastic is an exhibition of small works made out of the plastics we use in our daily lives this plastic becomes detritus after one single-use! How can we live with that? Studio shot August 2016 This series of small work will be presented at the Unicorn Gallery 17 Aug-29 Sept 2016 and can be viewed 24/7. Looking forward to setting up the works in 9 windows of different format.

Exhibition at the Yarra Sculpture Gallery

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Great show with works by members of the Contemporary Sculptors Association 21 July - 7 August 2016 Yarra Sculpture Gallery  117 Vere St in Abbotsford Yarrasculpturegallery.com.au                   Organic Cloak 2016 This work took 12 months in the making. With simple means Organic Plastic did see the light of the day at the YSG in 2016.  Hanging from a wooden branch plastic polyethylene rectangles were assembled into a plastic sheeting or a shield? What is our future? Will it protect us? Will it keep us warm? What happens with plastic debris that never disapears? Will it be the nightmare of our generation to bear?

The Gertrude Street Projection Festival 2016

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Opening tonight and for 10 consecutive nights artworks are to be seen along Gertrude St in Fitzroy. 

Hibernating is the word

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This is basically what I have become but of course making lots of things during my time hibernating and this I will show you very soon. But first I am currently finishing my 5 installations for the Getrude Street Projection Festival 2016. Before finishing a large piece for the Yarra Sculpture Gallery show this month. And then we'll what could be better then having the opportunity to show in Ballarat!!! I'll keep you posted... All System go for the GSPF! Finalising the works Grand opening this Friday night and on for 10 nights!

Time to play

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Extroardinary thing to be able to take this time which I am relishing indeed. For one it allowed me the time to go to workshops on basketry to expend ways of 'making' in my studio. Two to create something without a precise expectation...am even a tad bit proud of this little exercise of mine thanks to the Basketmakers of Victoria and the wonderful woman on site helping us along.  This fish made a young lady very happy as it sits now proudly in her room...

Back in the studio

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And happily I must say as to experience ones studio without the close pressure of an upcoming exhibition. This time allows one to experiment and test what your imagination has given you that you translated in drawing format for the past few months... So I decided and probably due to a lack of space in my studio to render & make small the many sketches i n my artist diary.  Here comes a world of maquettes... However am already finding that I itch to see my new creations in a large or extra large format... Patience is a virtue they say and art has certainly put me through that test along the way.                      The artist studio

working on maquette

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Working on the sketches I have drawn in my visual diary for possible large sculpture works. I am enjoying the man-made and nature combination of my recent maquette series which I will post as resolved works as they come out of the studio.

From sketches to maquette

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Playtime to Showtime And this is only the beginning... Lots of fun working out as you go from fish making to pineapple (??) making

Sculpture at Scenic World

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What an experience to see your own work in a magical landscape under the tree canopy of the N.S.W. Blue Mountains. This exhibit of what sculpture is now is an extroardinary survey of public spatial practice with in the lush enclosure of an untouched forest on the side of a mountain.

What a wonderful site to experience!

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Having a week turn around between 2 exhibits has been somehow a challenge to be able to transform the previous work into a new artwork. So spending days and night cutting the ends of the previous work to then glue and assemble the strands into new lengths  to create a totally new work. The experience was interesting overall totally possible but you do not foresee on being totally exhausted from the previous 2 other exhibits you also had in the last 4 weeks or so.  how the work came back from Lorne  Cutting the tentacles   Gluing the strands together  still adding some length needed for the sculptures Thankfully everything went well to the last minute still wrapping the work when my new sculpture was picked up ahead of a long drive up to Sydney. Then a flight and a drive to Katoomba to install the work the next day at 7am. All went well at Scenic World with a terrific team of professionals. and what a setting to show your work under the tree canopy in the most spec

A very positive world wind weekend at Lorne Victoria

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 Exhausted and very happy to have participated in Lorne Sculpturescape this year a massive weekend but so so rewarding to engage with the crowd and hear their thoughts responses and questions about the work for for anyone who didn't have the occasion to ask here is the cheat sheet or Fat Sheet: 1 strand is one 2 litre milk plastic bottle 250 bottle per branches 3 trees 5 branches 1200 bottles although I probably did cut 1500 as some didn't really make the cut for this work all bottle were cut by hand scissors were used at first then RSI injury led me to use a Stanley knife to finish this work it took 18 months to create this work this includes collecting, washing, removing the labels-plastic rings and plastic lids, the cutting & threading onto ropes

Lorne Sculture Biennale this weekend 25-26 March 2016

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I will be installing my work ' Sensorial Falls' this Friday and Saturday for SculptureScape at Lorne Biennale this weekend. I have finished packing the enormous amount of white Polyethylene stands for this installation and will load my car to the brim to take it down early on Friday morning. Looking  forward to seeing you on the weekend!                                                              one bundle and 4 to go!

Opening Saturday 12 April 2016 4-6pm all welcome

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Organic Plastic My sculptural work is created from everyday man-made objects and materials from nature I glean and collect from my surroundings. My interest lays in reconnecting societies to the way we handle waste in our precious environment. All Welcome to the official opening Saturday 12th March 4-6pm at Wide Open Road Art cnr Hargraves & Mostyn St, Castlemaine for more details www.wideopenroadart.com for more info on artist www.CarolynCardinet.com

Organic Plastic is on now @WORA in Castlemaine

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My new work Organic Plastic was successful at WORA it is available for viewing from Saturday 5 March 2016 Exhibition 5 March-1 April 2016