Carolyn Cardinet: Visual Art Blog

We have found in our area that many trolleys are pushed back to the streets the very next day  after they were used beyond the supermarket realm So a new project was born….wait and see  soon here

Opening Drinks Feb 28th, 4-6pm  View this email in your browser Gallery One  A Group Show All Things Nice  Taken from the children's poem 'what boys and girls are made of' is really just an exhibition celebrating contemporary female artists. We're just asking artists 'what they're made of' and getting them to put their artwork where their mouth is.   Featuring Works by:  Rhonda Baum  Jen Broadhurst  Gina Cuntstruct  Karenne Rees  Janita Ryan Martha Ackroyd Curtis  Antonia Marshall  Naomi Bishop  Carolyn Cardinet Arlene Fiddes Anne Kucera Jess Wilson Gallery Two Georgia BANKS Drip Artists Statement: Since Marina Abramovic’s 2005 performance ‘Seven Easy Pieces’ – in which she reperformed six seminal performance works from the sixties, and also an original piece – the dialogue regarding reenactment in performance art has become an incr...

A little talk in front of the artwork

The Online Magazine for Collectors Art Collector CAROLYN CARDINET: MEME FAMILLE EXHIBITION THE BLACK SPILL Carolyn Cardinet, Collier Tribal II , 2014. Black plastics. Courtesy: the artist . Même Famille Black Spill exhibition was inspired and created around the black plastic debris found on our beaches. The exhibition is an exhibition of assemblages, paintings and prints of tribal necklaces made from the collected plastic waste, the remains of our current society. This installation project was made possible through the Korowa environmental team, staff and students whom collected society’s plastic waste from city streets, beaches and homes. Visitors to the gallery opening are invited to bring your black plastic pieces to add to the Black Spill installation. Exhibition opens: 6-8pm Tuesday 26 August 2014 Exhibition closes: 1 September 2014 Location: Gallery Ranfurlie , 10-16 Ranfurlie Crescent, Glen Iris VIC 3146 Contact: 0...

My work is up and has a feeling of lightness and of ligth the lightness is expressed as it soars up towards the sky This is a great window space for this works thanks to the curator Caitlin Telford for designating me this position in the space. Photo of the work 'Algue Blanche ' 2014 taken in my garden

Very excited to show my sculptural work as part of the White Series to be shown in the  in.ter.face exhibition  The show organised and curated by Coalesce ARI will bring together Rmit MFA Alumni & Student “ The common boundaries or interconnections between systems, equipment, concepts and human beings often enable separate or incompatible elements to come together harmoniously whilst drawing attention to the problems that individual entities can hold. in·ter·face is an exhibition that explores the commonalities and tensions that make up these boundaries, interactions and communications whilst examining how individual entities are defined by their relationship with the outside world.”  in.ter.face will run 26 July to 9 August 2014 at D11 in the Docklands plaza

ECLECTIC WONDERLAND I am delighted to have been selected to participate in the Melbourne Food and Wine event  organised by the Sustainable Table: a Zero Waste Luncheon   As an experimental artist, the nature of my work involves adapting the materials fossicked and collected. As such the objects become redefined into a plethora of sculptural forms and installations, often informed by creatures from the deep encountered during their washed up journey to our shores. www.sustainabletable.org.au/EventCalendarDetails/tabid/56/2014/2/1218

'Mémoire de Vie' Opening 8 Octobre 2013 6.30-8pm at the Alliance Française de Melbourne 51 Grey St St Kilda All Welcome Gallery open every day till 8 November 2013 Hours: Mond-Thu:9.30am-8pm Frid:9.30am-6pm Sat:9am-6pm Sun: 1pm-6pm

Super exited! Just got my stands back for my show  at  Alliance Française de Melbourne  this year They look awesome! These sculptures were made  from the found frosted glass  from my local beach

The Great Mother Goddess 2013 'Creative SustainAbility' 27.05.13 - 26.06.2013 @ St Kilda Town hall My work is created from rubbish washed up on our local beaches. The Jellyfish tentacles are filled with an array of everyday junk polluting our ocean and beaches. I collect objects found locally and use them to create awareness in what is left behind.   The sheer amount of plastic was a catalyst in my research and interest in sustainability.  The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (7th continent) was paramount in my decision to pursue this pressing issue in my art practice.

I have a couple of installations in this new exhibition  at the St Kilda Town Hall Gallery Opening 6 June 2013at 6pm All Welcome

More rubbish then shells  its becoming a reality Look at the colour of the plastic after a stay in water I had to cut in half all the bottle I had previously gathered  Interestingly the pungent smell was one of petrol Once a bottle stays in te water for a while it gathers oils and other substance from the water  The original colour changes then releases other toxins in the water  and a smell similar to petrol

From this little sketch with ink on rag paper came the idea to work on a larger format to  create an acrylic tonal painting which isn't finished as yet , it is a work in progress to show how plastic can become, as you breathe new live into it, of commercial appeal as an accessory

My friend and my sister joined me today to pick up rubbish from the beach. We set up on my usual walk to each fill a normal plastic bag each (and picked up more which we directly put in the several bins that are along the beach shore). To get the amount of debris needed for my final piece, I needed to diversify and encompass all rubbish found and not only select the black plastics encountered. The picked plastic debris will go towards my end of the year project for the MFA graduate show This is after putting all the debris in crates and colour coding the found objects These crates are filling quickly and probably will need to transfer the mass of plastic found into large containers. First I am leaving them outside for the rain to wash off the sand Amazing amount isn't it and that was found only with in a few days. All the circular shaped black plastic objects found prior are at uni in my studio and this is at home

I have been watching videos of 'The Great ocean garbage patch' or also called the '7th continent' on YouTube  since its discovery in the Pacific which has doubled in the last 5-10 years , since then 4 more have been discovered including a second one in the Pacific. Watch these short videos and pass it on to friends and family to make them aware as I realise that talking to my students and some of my peers NOone knew about it!!!! and we are in 2012 well just over 15 years after the discovery of this Vortex!!!! and noone knows about it????? Am amazed that we are so blind to plastic which future is to never break down it actually break down in tiny little particles but will forever be on earth and never return to earth like paper can. So why are we still making things out of Plastic  What are we?  What have we created? What has the world become?  What the world will be for future generations? I am finding it hard to understand what we have as the human race be...

I found this on Friday on my usual beach walk What to do with all this???