Carolyn Cardinet: Visual Art Blog

This residency brought together the idea of redesigning clothes of the fast fashion era bringing together my past work in Haute Couture in Paris with my Installation Art practice. these are some of the RE-design I have been working on for the Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival RENEW RUNWAY catwalk which took place 8 March 2018 out of a truck and onto a man-made runway. The catwalk was a great success with passer by enjoying the breadth  of attires on show by 5 Re-designers  Sam Woud Filfy Rish Rachel Jessie-Rae Fashion Chelsea Carolyn Cardinet The Ta-Laaa finale grand piece was designed by the Yarra Youth Services Fashion group students and assembled by their educator Jenny the fashionista The evening was M-ced by the brilliant  Tenfingerz These are some of the designs I have been working on for this runway

Will be on till July 19th every night from 6pm till 12pm to view the program visit http://gspf.com.au Thank you to the many photographers whom took photos of this collaborative work with Yarra Youth  

Come and view some of the works I have worked on with Yarra Youth Teenagers during my residency in Fitzroy Lightastic Friday 10 July 4.30-6pm Then make your way around the corner to Gertrude St for the Projection Festival See you there!

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

We have found in our area that many trolleys are pushed back to the streets the very next day  after they were used beyond the supermarket realm So a new project was born….wait and see  soon here

Great artwork by YYS video students to project their own video footage on  Cannot wait to see the whole project when finished

March issue 2015               Photo by Chris Parkinson The sculpture is 'Algae Perpetualam' which is exhibited this month at The North Sydney Art Prize