Carolyn Cardinet: Visual Art Blog

This summer collecting hundreds of plastic punnets has been on my dial and of others.  All to be used to create the entrance arc for this year Sustainable Living Festival 2018. Thank you to all whom have been gathering large ammounts Sketch thought process Red fruit Punnets                                                                                 sliced Polyethylene

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

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...

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...

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

Well … Not physically but in spirit as my work will be shown tonight This project was made with the black plastic debris I collected form the beaches of Port Phillip The plastic is held together within the confinement of the netting  Exiting!!!!! The Great Mother Goddess Sketch Shown at Rmit space Shown at St Kilda Town hall Gallery