Carolyn Cardinet: Visual Art Blog

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

The North Sydney Art Prize is opening this weekend at The Coal Centre for Sustainability 2 Balls Head Drive in Waverton The exhibition will be on till 22 March 2015 and is open daily 10-5pm All Welcome My work 'Algae Perpetualam' is an all white outdoor sculpture  placed I believe half on grass and half on a rock bed More to come….

Opening Drinks Feb 28th, 4-6pm  View this email in your browser Gallery One  A Group Show All Things Nice  Taken from the children's poem 'what boys and girls are made of' is really just an exhibition celebrating contemporary female artists. We're just asking artists 'what they're made of' and getting them to put their artwork where their mouth is.   Featuring Works by:  Rhonda Baum  Jen Broadhurst  Gina Cuntstruct  Karenne Rees  Janita Ryan Martha Ackroyd Curtis  Antonia Marshall  Naomi Bishop  Carolyn Cardinet Arlene Fiddes Anne Kucera Jess Wilson Gallery Two Georgia BANKS Drip Artists Statement: Since Marina Abramovic’s 2005 performance ‘Seven Easy Pieces’ – in which she reperformed six seminal performance works from the sixties, and also an original piece – the dialogue regarding reenactment in performance art has become an incr...

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...