Carolyn Cardinet: Visual Art Blog

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 .

During the week I had the honour & pleasure to be interviewed by community radios across the area ABC Central Victoria in Bendigo with Jo Prinz Broadcasted Monday 7am Main Fm in Castlemaine Live Interview with Suzanne Donisthorpe Tuesday 12 Sept @10am HCR in Hepburn Springs with Eve Lamb broadcasted Wednesday 13 Sept @9.30am here is the link to this interview https://soundcloud.com/eve- lamb/organic-plastic- exhibition-artist-interview

Plastic Trap 2017 This work is part of Organic Plastic exhibition at  The Newstead Art Hub which opened today Saturday 2nd September 2017 The official launch will take place  Saturday 9th September 2017 2-4pm All Welcome The exhibition will be opened  every weekend during the month of September Saturdays & Sundays 11-4pm 8 Tivey rd - Newstead

Las Amigas   The exhibition  a visual feast by  3 Awesome Australian Artists Babette O'Brien - Marian Rennie - Carolyn Cardinet For this Pop-Up show, we have chosen to exhibit an array of our combined talents together for your pure enjoyment and of course ours Come and view this collection of artworks  by 3 passionate artists made with  several and alternative medium designed to awaken your senses Exhibition Opening Saturday 13th May  3-6pm 75 Harding St Coburg to view more of our works please visit our website www.marianrennie.com.au www.carolyncardinet.com

Wonderful to be part of this Festival  with WORA again this year  I was privileged to be asked to put up my new work with an exhibition with 4 talented artists from Castlemaine. The Mill will be an exhibition space opposite the glorious Botanical Gardens. Plastic Waterways - installation at night  Surprised this morning to have the light streaming onto my work light and shadow adding a new dimension to this installation with a quick portrait just before we de-install  The work Plastic Waterways was a map of Victoria's waterways engraved and of the coast cut-out a project made and inspired from possum cloaks which were painted with aerial maps of the local tribe.  Creating awareness in plastic consumerism and plastic pollution is something I am passionate about in my art practice. Through my art practice, I have a visual language to contribute to the dialogue which is starting but only just starting to happen around the world. T...

INSECT HABITATS  WORKSHOP The first creative collaboration is making Insect Habitat table decorations as part of the National Sustainable Living Festival 2017. The Great Local Lunch is a community collaboration held on Sunday 12th February 2017 at 12.30pm. Carolyn and Deb will conduct a free workshop on February 6th to engage the public in creating functional and interesting table decorations for The Great Local Lunch guests. Come meet like-minded people and create Insect Habitats to be used as table decorations for The Great Local Lunch on Feb 12. http://www.slf.org.au/event/great-local-lunch/ Suitability: Max 30 people. 16 y/o – Adults (minimum supervision) Register: Facebook invite  https://www.facebook.com/events/346612949065222/?ti=icl or email Carolyn: carolyncardinet@gmail.com Deb: dpgreensong@gmail.com WHY WE CHOSE TO CREATE INSECT HABITATS We are inspired to create habitats and increase public knowledge due to the worldwide news that bee...

Volunteers are needed at a workshop to help create new habitat  for our diminishing insect population Keep the date and come along on Monday 6th February 7-9pm St Kilda eco-centre (St Kilda Botanical Gardens)  Please bring some organic material and manmade containers to assemble these habitats  Start gathering material for the event such as: dry organic matter              leaves       twigs       pine cones       grass       nuts        flowers newspaper       corrugated cardboard       plastic/metal containers       plastic straws    sticks The Great Local lunch this year will be another amazing lunch served along the Yarra river. For this Debbie Punton from Greensong and I will be working together again to create some table decoration for this event which will take place   ...

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

Organic Plastic is an exhibition of small works made out of the plastics we use in our daily lives this plastic becomes detritus after one single-use! How can we live with that? Studio shot August 2016 This series of small work will be presented at the Unicorn Gallery 17 Aug-29 Sept 2016 and can be viewed 24/7. Looking forward to setting up the works in 9 windows of different format.