Carolyn Cardinet: Visual Art Blog

A Bugs Hotel for the community children to create. This project will go on living at one of the school grounds to offer shelter to insects in need of a nest and home. For this project we used gleaned plastic materials that we incorporated in each hotel room with found organic material.  The Mount Rainier children had a ball and so did I as they showed an extreme amount of thoughtfulness in their constructions. to view more follow artsmart_eco_workshops on instagram

I will be conducting Art & Sustainability workshop  during the month of September 2017 at these following venues Montessori senior school Newstead Primary School Bendigo Tafe Carolines' Spring school Newstead Art Hub For more info on times please email me CarolynCardinet@gmail.com

What an experience to see your own work in a magical landscape under the tree canopy of the N.S.W. Blue Mountains. This exhibit of what sculpture is now is an extroardinary survey of public spatial practice with in the lush enclosure of an untouched forest on the side of a mountain.

    Photo by David Warnock Like and oil spill, plastic never goes away  is an all black immersive installation.  The exhibition space is transformed into a window that reflects on the state of our oceans’ seabeds. The work is assembled out of the black plastic I have collected from Port Phillip Bay and gleaned from the streets around my studio. Most of the plastic ‘detritus’ appearing in the work passed through our hands, used only once before being discarded in the overflowing bins of our city streets before washing up on our shores. The work explicitly asks “how much more plastic do we need?” With current rates of consumption we are arguably at a point of no return. One can easily foresee the whole sea (as in this installation) being strewn with debris that will never disappear unless we stop using plastic, start to care for our eco-system and reconnect with our environment.                  ...