Carolyn Cardinet: Visual Art Blog

Installation Collab with Artist Tim McLoraine We are in Washington D.C. at Red Dirt Studios How amazing is this piece Moon Cocoon is getting better and better as we create it It has been a fun and interesting project to use and re-use Millard from Tim's studio that Time used on another project prior to this and am sure again in future projects as we are discovering more and more of its potentiality. That is why I love working with unconventional materials as there is no prescribe used for these items, well lets re-prhrase this there is but that was for the object first purpose and as a discarded object it become now something else and something beautiful and no longer a functional object.

After working with scientist and researchers at RMIT University during my Art & Science residency in Sydney this year I was honoured to be asked to be a speaker for the RMIT symposium on the state of the bay. The Importance of Art & Science Collaboration in this Day & Age By Carolyn Cardinet Thursday 14 Dec 2017 11.30-11.45 RMIT - Port Phillip Bay Symposium ‘What happens when these 2 tribes meet’ was the title of an article written on the matter in 2011 Well first we say hello, then both parties are nervous as one has never met someone else interested in their own passion, in their own field of research but somehow after a few meetings one starts to understand that artists and scientists are very similar. Similar you may not think but similar we are. Both tribes are making/creating/voicing hypothesis in their own field. Hypothesis that may or may not have an answer as yet but never the less an answer will eventually come. I have to say that hypothesi...

Rethink is the brain child of Junkies Magazine  A festival of reuse rethink recycle ideas which will take place at the  Ballarat Trades hall over the 17-19 November weekend Junkies is a magazine that surveys all aspect of creative people in the field of sustainability  using junk as their material Four of my large works adorned the Trades Hall for that weekend amidst plenty of smaller works

We are coming to the end of our  Pop-Up Exhibition  LAS AMIGAS   75 Harding St Coburg Sat 27 June  11-5pm   75 Harding St Coburg Las Amigas   Carolyn-Babette-Marian  Poly weaved sculpture Thank you to all that made our opening you created a fantastic buzz  on the night! Thank you also to all individuals who visited our show the last couple of weeks 'We love your support' till next time!

Wonderful to be part of this Festival  with WORA again this year  I was privileged to be asked to put up my new work with an exhibition with 4 talented artists from Castlemaine. The Mill will be an exhibition space opposite the glorious Botanical Gardens. Plastic Waterways - installation at night  Surprised this morning to have the light streaming onto my work light and shadow adding a new dimension to this installation with a quick portrait just before we de-install  The work Plastic Waterways was a map of Victoria's waterways engraved and of the coast cut-out a project made and inspired from possum cloaks which were painted with aerial maps of the local tribe.  Creating awareness in plastic consumerism and plastic pollution is something I am passionate about in my art practice. Through my art practice, I have a visual language to contribute to the dialogue which is starting but only just starting to happen around the world. T...

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

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

All works are installed in Ballarat. Organic Pladtic is an ensemble of white plastic detritus assembled and twined with organic matter the show is on till 29 Sept at the Unicorn Lane Gallery in Ballarat. The installation team - great work team

And happily I must say as to experience ones studio without the close pressure of an upcoming exhibition. This time allows one to experiment and test what your imagination has given you that you translated in drawing format for the past few months... So I decided and probably due to a lack of space in my studio to render & make small the many sketches i n my artist diary.  Here comes a world of maquettes... However am already finding that I itch to see my new creations in a large or extra large format... Patience is a virtue they say and art has certainly put me through that test along the way.                      The artist studio

 Exhausted and very happy to have participated in Lorne Sculpturescape this year a massive weekend but so so rewarding to engage with the crowd and hear their thoughts responses and questions about the work for for anyone who didn't have the occasion to ask here is the cheat sheet or Fat Sheet: 1 strand is one 2 litre milk plastic bottle 250 bottle per branches 3 trees 5 branches 1200 bottles although I probably did cut 1500 as some didn't really make the cut for this work all bottle were cut by hand scissors were used at first then RSI injury led me to use a Stanley knife to finish this work it took 18 months to create this work this includes collecting, washing, removing the labels-plastic rings and plastic lids, the cutting & threading onto ropes

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

48 artists are represented at this year Yarra Sculpture Gallery Art Prize Opening 4-7pm this Saturday 12 December 201 2015 Participating Artists Fredrick White Louis Balis Heinz Boeck Aneta Bozic Tanja George David Waters Tas Wansbrough Sione Francis Liz Walker Helen Braun Maggie Brown Penny Algar Veronica Caven Aldous Conrad Clark Robert Waghorn Brendon Taylor Takahiko Sugawara Kerry Strauss Andrew Paul Smith Maria Simonelli Faustas Sadaustas Stephanie Robinson Katerina Richardson Jackie Ralph Herbz Rah Anna Prifti Merle Parker Linda Oy Ho Deidre Oliver Akiko Nagino Tracey Lamb Katherine Marmaras Richard Monger Robert Mihajlovski Anne-Marie Kuter Glen Jackson Paul Gorman Felicity Gordon Ernst Fries Julian Martino Yuko Dora Justine Cromb Betty Collier iChing2 Carolyn Cardinet Katy Bowman Suzanne Kaldor Cliff Burtt

Wednesday 25 November 2015, 11.00 am  to  Thursday 31 December 2015, 11.00 pm Carolyn Cardinet's  Like and oil spill, plastic never goes away  is an all black immersive installation comprising assorted discarded black plastic and fibreglass PVC mesh. The exhibition space is transformed into a window that reflects on the state of the ocean seabed. This work is assembled out of the black plastic that Cardinet has collected from Port Phillip Bay and gleaned from the streets around her studio. As the artist states, "Most of the plastic ‘detritus’ appearing in the work passed through someone's hands, used only once before being discarded in the overflowing bins of our city streets before washing up on our shores. The work explicitly asks 'how much more plastic do we need?' With current rates of consumption we are arguably at a point of no return. One can easily foresee the whole sea, like this installation, being strewn with debris that will never disappe...