Carolyn Cardinet: Visual Art Blog

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

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.  ...

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...

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