Carolyn Cardinet: Visual Art Blog

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

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.  ...

Looking forward to your coming Wednesday 5 August 1.30pm  Artist talk for students and the general public to attend this free event  Death by POLY P.E.T. Tide is located at the Bayside Corporate Center   76 Royal avenue in Sandringham

The North Sydney Art Prize is opening this weekend at The Coal Centre for Sustainability 2 Balls Head Drive in Waverton The exhibition will be on till 22 March 2015 and is open daily 10-5pm All Welcome My work 'Algae Perpetualam' is an all white outdoor sculpture  placed I believe half on grass and half on a rock bed More to come….

White Trail II 2015 All Things Nice Trocadero on show till 14 March 2015

This is the interview by Ebru Halimoff that was published in the Maribyrnong Star Weekly  Footscray artist Carolyn Cardinet’s message against littering Ebru Halimoff | 13:22:PM 10/12/2014 Wednesday December 17, 2014   Carolyn Cardinet and her artwork created from waste.  Photo: Damjan Janevski A local artist has created art from Footscray’s waste and plastic debris to highlight the problem of littering. Carolyn Cardinet’s Monument to Footscray is on display in the courtyard of Footscray library until December 20.   Ms Cardinet has been collecting white waste from local streets and has been keeping a record of her findings in Footscray. She says three totems she built in the public area represent what she has seen in Footscray. “I’m doing this because plastic is full of contaminates,” she said. “It releases toxins when in the water, polluting the water and finding its way back into our food. “We should use glass containe...