Carolyn Cardinet: Visual Art Blog

Volunteers are needed at a workshop to help create new habitat  for our diminishing insect population Keep the date and come along on Monday 6th February 7-9pm St Kilda eco-centre (St Kilda Botanical Gardens)  Please bring some organic material and manmade containers to assemble these habitats  Start gathering material for the event such as: dry organic matter              leaves       twigs       pine cones       grass       nuts        flowers newspaper       corrugated cardboard       plastic/metal containers       plastic straws    sticks The Great Local lunch this year will be another amazing lunch served along the Yarra river. For this Debbie Punton from Greensong and I will be working together again to create some table decoration for this event which will take place                     The Great Local Lunch Sunday 12th February 2017 at 12.30pm (look up @SustainableLivingFestival on fb The Great Local Lunch #LocalLunchie to find how to enter the competiti

Thursday 19th January to Thursday 16th February 2017 Cube 37, Glass Cube Gallery A large scale installation and Art After Dark projection that comments on the effects of microplastics in the Artic Ocean and prompts us to consider how we might be contributing to this process of contamination. Open hours Tues-Fri 9-5pm & Sat 10-2pm Free Artist Talk: Saturday 11 February, 12pm Booking essential: 03 9784 1060

Glad to see this very large installation coming together in the Glass Cube Gallery at Cube 37. The Glass Cube is a street frontage exhibition space in the Frankston Art Centre which can be viewed day & night for this Angela Barnett & I have teamed up. This collaborative work has been staged to have a maximum viewing capacity. Angela's work can be seen projected on three giant screens at night and my all white installation can be viewed during daytime from the street. To experience the full extent of this immersive installation come  and see it close up   during the gallery open hours. Opening Hours Tuesday to Friday 9-5, Saturday 9-2

I am rushing through the last hurdles to complete these 2 large scales jellyfish installations made uniquely out of single-use plastic packaging. Monday I will be installing at the Glass Cube at Cube 37 with Angela Barnett who is making of projection of the glaciers and arctic oceans to be viewed at night around my two pendants that will be trailing onto the ground. The work will be on site from Tuesday 17th January till Thursday 17th February 2017 Artists talk will be on Saturday 11th February 2017 at 12pm nibbles & drinks on arrival Bookings essential 03 9784 1060