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.

This article by Karly Smith was published in local newspapers Midland Express 26 Sept 2017 Tarrangower Times 29 Sept 2017

A beautiful day to paint in my studio at the old railway station... Jellyfish trio view from the platform Yesterday I had the pleasure to meet with a couple of local artists in Newstead. Horse (artist nickname) took me to meet Roger and his eclectic sculpture garden. His sculpture park is always in the process of making and remaking to see the possibilities at hand. His house with no running water or electricity is a testament to simple life and what little means  is needed to make some great art .

An unusual idea came to me while away but always wanted to make. Also the material found were perfect for this project. Collecting, gathering and recording trash while walking the street of Sydney suburbs allowed me to create this work and of course as you will see this happen to look like fashion... squeezing the waistline looking at the tail of the dress  Now do you see what I see when I mention fashion albeit now fashionable trash in Pyrmont and that is where fashion came into my mind

I am here in Sydney working away in my new studio a perfect setting for a very interesting residency which will see me collaborating with scientists from RMIT University for the first time I am following their steps looking at the possibility of a plastic-eating bacteria. My journey started 3 months ago and will culminate with an exhibition at the end of this residency at Culture at Work. Microbeplastica will be exhibited at the Accelerator Gallery 6 Scott St Pyrmont 11-17 June 2017 MICROBEPLASTICA  Artist Talk  Thursday 17 June 2017 6-8pm  Drinks will be served All Welcome www.cultureatwork.org.au

French Film Festival 2017 at The Astor I love seeing these new versions of my work all lit up...  Upside-down Jellyfish and  Anemones (below)

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...

         White Trash Opening was FANtastic! Yes Pun intended                            and a great turn out it was indeed   Thank you to all who came  Thank you for supporting the artist  Thank you for supporting the show Thank you for all your photos of the opening

  It was a great pleasure to be shown in between  Julie Collins/Derek John and Jackie Ralph artworks

A little talk in front of the artwork

This is the interview by Ebru Halimoff that was published in the Maribyrnong Star Weekly  Footscray artist Carolyn Cardinet’s message against littering Ebru Halimoff | 13:22:PM 10/12/2014 Wednesday December 17, 2014   Carolyn Cardinet and her artwork created from waste.  Photo: Damjan Janevski A local artist has created art from Footscray’s waste and plastic debris to highlight the problem of littering. Carolyn Cardinet’s Monument to Footscray is on display in the courtyard of Footscray library until December 20.   Ms Cardinet has been collecting white waste from local streets and has been keeping a record of her findings in Footscray. She says three totems she built in the public area represent what she has seen in Footscray. “I’m doing this because plastic is full of contaminates,” she said. “It releases toxins when in the water, polluting the water and finding its way back into our food. “We should use glass containe...

Walking tour Footscray Today as a new resident, I joined a council walking tour of Footscray the tour led us from the Footscray Town Hall to Hopkins st bridge by Amanda Morgan then the wall painting that can be seen from the bridge intersection by  Conrad Bizjak  and then up to the library to see the tree lanterns by Jessica Kelly to end up at my  at #Artsboxmcc artist residency studio. Look up www.facebook.com/StreetworksMCC

Taking shape This morning the 'Monument to Footscray', my ephemeral totems work is progressing. Putting together slowly but surelly the gathered #Plastics of my #FootscrayLife. In a week or so this work will be finished and ready to be displayed in #Footscray.

Jackpot in Footscray I have found a large amount of take away coffee and of soft drinks lids as well as many straws These will be mounted on the monuments I am creating to be displayed the Library courtyard after my residency. The work will be seen at night through the openings onto the carpark. Black: Take away coffee lids White: Take away coffee lids take away soft drinks lids Straws

The Online Magazine for Collectors Art Collector CAROLYN CARDINET: MEME FAMILLE EXHIBITION THE BLACK SPILL Carolyn Cardinet, Collier Tribal II , 2014. Black plastics. Courtesy: the artist . Même Famille Black Spill exhibition was inspired and created around the black plastic debris found on our beaches. The exhibition is an exhibition of assemblages, paintings and prints of tribal necklaces made from the collected plastic waste, the remains of our current society. This installation project was made possible through the Korowa environmental team, staff and students whom collected society’s plastic waste from city streets, beaches and homes. Visitors to the gallery opening are invited to bring your black plastic pieces to add to the Black Spill installation. Exhibition opens: 6-8pm Tuesday 26 August 2014 Exhibition closes: 1 September 2014 Location: Gallery Ranfurlie , 10-16 Ranfurlie Crescent, Glen Iris VIC 3146 Contact: 0...

Very excited to show my sculptural work as part of the White Series to be shown in the  in.ter.face exhibition  The show organised and curated by Coalesce ARI will bring together Rmit MFA Alumni & Student “ The common boundaries or interconnections between systems, equipment, concepts and human beings often enable separate or incompatible elements to come together harmoniously whilst drawing attention to the problems that individual entities can hold. in·ter·face is an exhibition that explores the commonalities and tensions that make up these boundaries, interactions and communications whilst examining how individual entities are defined by their relationship with the outside world.”  in.ter.face will run 26 July to 9 August 2014 at D11 in the Docklands plaza