Carolyn Cardinet: Visual Art Blog

Le Courrier Australien 12 février 2018 Valentine Sabouraud Environnement / Life Style / Melbourne Great Local Lunch : déjeuner engagé au bord de la Yarra Depuis 19 ans, le Sustainable Living Festival offre une plateforme unique aux initiatives les plus diverses imaginées pour limiter le réchauffement climatique. Dans une ambiance bon enfant, il s'empare de sujets tels que l'agriculture urbaine, la mobilité, l'énergie solaire, le recyclage ou le co-habitat. Il propose aussi, depuis 5 ans, un Grand Déjeuner Local réalisé par un chef à partir de produits fraîchement livrés par les fermiers de la région. Le Courrier Australien y était, en compagnie de 250 invités. Au cœur du festival qui bat son plein, des barrières forment un espace distinct où les tables sont alignées sous de grands parasols blancs. A l'entrée, les invités entrent un par un sous une arche arienne à longues franges réalisée à partir de 689 emballages en plastique par l...

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...

Carolyn Cardinet  Visual artist dedicates her work to the planet! by Valentine Sabouraud Le Courrier Australien 23 May 2017 – translation by me! 38 millions  plastic  pieces have  invade d  Henderson Island in the Pacific  Ocean . This piece of paradise is now the symbol  of the extreme pollution,  which is  felt in  o ur oceans as it is choking  fauna and destroying their ecosystem . We talk  about a 7 th  continent-in reality it is more like a  ‘ plastic  soup’  made of microplastic .  In response to this  Carolyn Cardinet  an artist  passio nate about this topic,  uses her activist work  to  recycle  the plastic she gleans essentially on the beach  close to home .  In her studio  are gathered , milk bottles, old lids and straws touch by the time spent in the ocean. Old fans have been  turn ed in  cornucopias  and dream catc...