Carolyn Cardinet: Visual Art Blog

Opening tonight and for 10 consecutive nights artworks are to be seen along Gertrude St in Fitzroy. 

For 'Assemblage of the Past' thanks to my amazing helpers whom came on this  trip on a sunny day! Thank you Anna for this wonderful opportunity in giving creative minds the possibility to respond to this beautiful  land and past history.

Late night working in studio #PlasticOverload  #PlasticPollution  #Polyethylene

Everything in the residency studio needs to fit in the car and then in my studio  Bonne Chance Carolyn

February 2015 issue Carolyn in front of a work in progress to be installed at the Atrium in the Bayside Corporate Centre

Today I met some lovely locals whom wandered into Artsboxmcc. Sold a necklace to Matthew and spoke to Katie a freelance writer. I continue developing the totems and have secured their lining.

Had really lovely visitors today including Nick from Footscray West who talked to me about the old country- Italy....then an artist who 's work is in show at the Dax centre... Also a poet, Julian who is torn between his love of the word and the reality of working full time... Amazing to have the time to engage with people as normally in the solitude of my studio no one comes or is invited to come as making art take a lot of mind space and concentration to develop ideas, trying, failing, starting again, failing again, writing and failing. Therefor no one is actually welcome unless one is stuck so #artsboxmcc is a welcome change to explore further and further the market, the food, the area, the people, community and surroundings of #footscray, Today my pursuit was for large plastic sheets of #plastic wrapping/packaging material that I could possibly use to diffuse the light in my 'Monument to Footscray' or   totems structures. Happy to have found some and here the...

Exiting Invitations have arrived All Welcome to our opening Tuesday 26 August 2014 6-8pm

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

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

In Memoriam 2 @ Gossard Space This installation of single use cardboard packaging used to transport art stretchers is painting with mistints from Bunnings The idea of this project is to use the overlooked. Many items  has been regarded as not worthy by Western society. The sad truth is that yet we produce more, when we already have plenty to use and choose from.

This piece Family is made of single use packaging. What is considered art ? What can be used as a support to make art? What is in the box (wooden art stretchers) or can the packaging be used instead Paintings of plastic trash washed on shore are painted on the boxes as unstable towers

This Black Sea Nettle tentacles are filled with black plastic fragments washed up on the beaches between Middle Park and St Kilda. The transparent ring under the jellyfish canopy is made of plastic drink bottles also from the beach. The plastic found is in varied state of decay and discolouration, stained by an extended stay in our oceans.