Carolyn Cardinet: Visual Art Blog

I present to you The Waste Gateway made for  The Sustainable Living Festival 2018  Great Local Lunch  Installing the archway The theme of the Sustainable Living Festival this year was about Food Waste and was delighted to be able to participate once again in this festival which is very meaningful to me and I am grateful for the 4th year to be been making temporal sculptural assemblages. For this year I wanted to create a more immersive assemblage that people would respond to. The archway was created thanks to the many of the SLF volunteers, friends and neighbours who kept collecting through summer for this creation hundreds of fruit or vegetable plastic packaging. These single-use transparent punnets were assembled with used white packaging straps gathered. The idea was to thread the punnets onto the plastic straps as skewers and attached to an archway to create the entrance to the Great Local Lunch 2018 arena space at Birrarrung Marr. After a fe...

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

Black Plastic Working away on my new exhibition coming up in a few weeks at Ranfurlie Gallery I am excited at the idea of talking to the students of Korowa to engage and connect them with their environment This new  Art & Sustainability project  will be made possible with the students participation The specifically designed installation  Black Spill will bring together ideas of  evil/blackness & consumerism/waste ...

This Black Sea Nettle tentacles are filled with black plastic fragments washed up on the beaches between Middle Park and St Kilda. The transparent ring under the jellyfish canopy is made of plastic drink bottles also from the beach. The plastic found is in varied state of decay and discolouration, stained by an extended stay in our oceans.

Trash Rubbish Garbage Litter Dirt Debris Fragment Filth Refuse Junk Detritus Disregarded Lost Discard Broken Matter Found Devalued Left over Cast off Unwanted Unloved Unnoticed Disused Scraps Waste

This morning was I thought unrevealing that was till I came back and emptied my bag, close to 50 straws (mainly white) were found after the rubbish truck picked up most of the debris washed on shore last weekend. Q: Can you recognise the brand that gives this kind of straws with each of their soft drinks? On the other side of the beach my dear friend also picked up rubbish for me and her comment were lots of red rubber band this morning on the beach. Other items that were more prominent this morning were cigarettes butts which made their way directly to the rubbish bin  My mistake as I couldn't think of a satisfactory smell operated piece to make

I found this on Friday on my usual beach walk What to do with all this???