Carolyn Cardinet: Visual Art Blog

This year was a huge event in new premises at the old Melbourne Meat Market. The crowd that came (braving the cold) was amazing and the ambiance in this venue was magical. French food, design, travel combined with lectures and talks made it a special event for all. To add to this, pass the garden and in the stable was La Galerie 17, representing 5 French artists! I was thrilled to be able to present my work in this large warehouse and perfect as a gallery space. Tall ceilings and white walls with natural light coming through was the perfect combination to present art! with curator Heather Van Heerwaarden

My new work Organic Plastic was successful at WORA it is available for viewing from Saturday 5 March 2016 Exhibition 5 March-1 April 2016

I am grateful to be part of this show at the Yarra Sculpture Gallery opening this Saturday This sculpture id made with found plastic  The Yarra Sculpture Gallery is opening its doors to the public  to view their members survey exhibition from 20 May -7 June 2015 LED-HDPE 2015

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...