Carolyn Cardinet: Visual Art Blog

A great turnout this weekend for the official launch at  the Newstead Arts Hub of Organic Plastic. Agathe, Louise, myself, Julie & Mary Speeches took place between Julie Patey of the Newstead Arts Hub , Mary Blain of Mount Alexander Sustainability group in Castlemaine (MASG)and Louise Jiricek launching her new community project Boomerang Bags Newstead. here with Louise The crowd included Juliet from the local primary school. Some of the children  came to view and show their parents the artwork they put together with trash during our Art & Sustainability workshops at school last week.

It is that time of the year again and I am getting prepared to go on my 2016 Can Serrat artist residency in Spain at the bottom of Mount Serrat 40kms away from Barcelona this September. I am very excited to refresh my artist soul, fill my image library and see what else is out there plus visit my family and friends in Paris and later on in Portugal. I will be developing new series influenced by my surroundings as I would like to surrender to my new environment and I cannot wait to show you the results as I will go dark for the next 6 weeks and will live a life of serenity without any social media (so she says)... Upon my return, I will hang a large work in 'Immerse'.Thisexhibition program, features acclaimed and emerging artists. 30 exhibitions over 30 days in 30 venues divided between 6 curators in Knox city so keep your ears open... Till then keep SAFE and keep SANE - be creative no matter what!  Organic Plastic at Unicorn Lane Gallery Ballarat (detail) on 24/7 t...

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

Great show with works by members of the Contemporary Sculptors Association 21 July - 7 August 2016 Yarra Sculpture Gallery  117 Vere St in Abbotsford Yarrasculpturegallery.com.au                   Organic Cloak 2016 This work took 12 months in the making. With simple means Organic Plastic did see the light of the day at the YSG in 2016.  Hanging from a wooden branch plastic polyethylene rectangles were assembled into a plastic sheeting or a shield? What is our future? Will it protect us? Will it keep us warm? What happens with plastic debris that never disapears? Will it be the nightmare of our generation to bear?

Having a week turn around between 2 exhibits has been somehow a challenge to be able to transform the previous work into a new artwork. So spending days and night cutting the ends of the previous work to then glue and assemble the strands into new lengths  to create a totally new work. The experience was interesting overall totally possible but you do not foresee on being totally exhausted from the previous 2 other exhibits you also had in the last 4 weeks or so.  how the work came back from Lorne  Cutting the tentacles   Gluing the strands together  still adding some length needed for the sculptures Thankfully everything went well to the last minute still wrapping the work when my new sculpture was picked up ahead of a long drive up to Sydney. Then a flight and a drive to Katoomba to install the work the next day at 7am. All went well at Scenic World with a terrific team of professionals. and what a setting to show your work under the...

 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

Awesome day setting up my sculptural works with a great team at The Gallery @ the St Kumsa town Hall today The solo show is taking shape and it is so much more rewarding then seeing paintings going up...