Carolyn Cardinet: Visual Art Blog

These portraits in a sense interrogate our social landscapes of consumption I have been traveling for a month long everyday  from Bethesda - Friendship Height metro station to Rhode Island stop and then take the bus down to 34th St off Rhode Island avenue twice a day. During these trips I had the occasion to see all kind of characters coming in and out of the bus and being the minority aboard the bus in this area. These rides gave me the opportunity to try something I had wanted to try for a while.  Making portraits out of single-use plastic waste.  So this artist residency at the Red Dirt Studio as well as the plastics found on the streets around the studio was the perfect time and allowed me to do this side project. Like sketches for further enquiry these portraits were done as preliminary drawing studies for further enquiries when I am back home.

Organic Plastic My sculptural work is created from everyday man-made objects and materials from nature I glean and collect from my surroundings. My interest lays in reconnecting societies to the way we handle waste in our precious environment. All Welcome to the official opening Saturday 12th March 4-6pm at Wide Open Road Art cnr Hargraves & Mostyn St, Castlemaine for more details www.wideopenroadart.com for more info on artist www.CarolynCardinet.com

Another day looking for the unnoticed and planning how all of the found may work together as Black & white installations Black: Packaging strips  Shoe hill Hanging device Knife Bottle cap T/A Coffee cup lid White: Packaging strip Straws Fruit packaging Bottle cap Pipe

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

This artwork has been selected as a finalist for the inaugural Noosa Art Award 2014, later this year at the Noosa Regional Gallery 28 August-5 October 2014 Opening on August 29th should you be around Anemone Blanche 2014 (Detail)

Wildlife Art Prize 15.05.14 - 27.06.14 Three Paintings made the finalists in 'The Vanishing Species' category. The three works are reminiscent of VII century still life genre. The assemblage painted to resemble jellyfish are of discarded found objects. The exhibition will run from May to June 2014 at the CSIRO in Canberra. This exhibition is in conjunction with the symposium held on 'Art and Science' at the CSIRO.

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

Painting again! It feels great to have a paint brush in hand and let it flow out of you Working towards this year's solo exhibition at the French Alliance  Please make a note of the opening  8th October 2013 6-8pm ALL WELCOME

Plenty to think of and plenty to do with 2 shows next year and a trip to the US to organise How wonderful to be on this new journey after 2 years swallowed by self knowledge and self discovery together with the most interesting studies yet to date. Thank you RMIT MFA team I really enjoyed this amazing journey that led and allowed me to step into my dream of pursuing a 3 dimensional art practice.