January 30, 2017 Leader COMMUNITY NEWS South East Carolyn Cardinet’s immersive artwork `Glacier’ highlights impact of plastic contamination Christian Tatman, Frankston Standard Leader AS A painter, Carolyn Cardinet found that the canvas simply wasn’t big enough for her imagination. “Often painting is representative, but I needed it (art) to be immersive,” she told the Leader. “That’s what I wanted to create with painting, but it wasn’t enough. “You can only go so far with painting. I was a bit stifled.” So five years ago, Cardinet moved from away painting and subsequently completed both a Bachelor and Masters of Visual Art. Her latest project titled ‘Glacier’ — on display at Frankston — is a collaboration with multimedia artist Angela Barnett. Cardinet said she came up with the concept after walking along a beach and being struck by the sheer amount of plastic debris that had washed up. She hoped the artwork, which fuses sculptural forms and proje...
