Carolyn Cardinet: Visual Art Blog

I will be part of the panel for the VIVID Ideas 2017 discussion on  ART SCIENCE AND WONDER Tuesday 13th June 2017 at 6pm UTS Business School (building 8) ULTIMO NSW MICROBEPLASTICA artwork (details) Carolyn Cardinet What Does it Take? Science, Art, Wonder Can you see a future where artists, scientists and business work together to find creative solutions to big problems? It may exist in fragile ecosystems but how can it be sustained? Considering the innovations that Leonardo da Vinci was dreaming up more than 500 years ago, what conditions are required for great ideas to be drawn up for the 21st Century? Patronage was an important catalyst for the Renaissance. What is the role of business and universities in the 21 Century? How can we revision and resource the creative research ecosystem? Many of the speakers have dual or multi disciplinary backgrounds, artist and scientist, scientist and musician, scientist to artist, business science artist, are we all inher...

Mer de Plastique "For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive, in this century he is beginning to realise that in order to survive, he must protct it" Jacques Cousteau This is a beautiful quote thank you Junkies Magazine for this article in your grest magazine dedicated to all things reused and repurposed! Junkies Magazine - Issue 9 - June 2017 Get the last issue now!

Carolyn Cardinet  Visual artist dedicates her work to the planet! by Valentine Sabouraud Le Courrier Australien 23 May 2017 – translation by me! 38 millions  plastic  pieces have  invade d  Henderson Island in the Pacific  Ocean . This piece of paradise is now the symbol  of the extreme pollution,  which is  felt in  o ur oceans as it is choking  fauna and destroying their ecosystem . We talk  about a 7 th  continent-in reality it is more like a  ‘ plastic  soup’  made of microplastic .  In response to this  Carolyn Cardinet  an artist  passio nate about this topic,  uses her activist work  to  recycle  the plastic she gleans essentially on the beach  close to home .  In her studio  are gathered , milk bottles, old lids and straws touch by the time spent in the ocean. Old fans have been  turn ed in  cornucopias  and dream catc...