Carolyn Cardinet: Visual Art Blog

This summer collecting hundreds of plastic punnets has been on my dial and of others.  All to be used to create the entrance arc for this year Sustainable Living Festival 2018. Thank you to all whom have been gathering large ammounts Sketch thought process Red fruit Punnets                                                                                 sliced Polyethylene

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.

         White Trash Opening was FANtastic! Yes Pun intended                            and a great turn out it was indeed   Thank you to all who came  Thank you for supporting the artist  Thank you for supporting the show Thank you for all your photos of the opening

Starting the new year with a show at PS50 one of the newest alternative galleries in town. The show is about how interesting opposite can be. As Christmas is in summer in Australia, I will be recreating the feeling of the wintery Christmas of my youth with a little difference as it is presented in Melbourne on our long hot summer nights for the month of February 2015. Nine Large snowflakes  created from single use plastic packaging found in our back lanes will be backlit in window boxes along Orr st (opposite cafe). PS50 on facebook The show 'White Nights' will run from 2 Feb2 till 15 March 2015

Scavenger Days are nearly OVER One of my last day picking up rubbish today I have concentrated in the last minute design of the Totem and went to pick up flatten plastic bottles Photo by Debbie Punton Today the lovely warm weather brought many visitors, some recurring friendly people, to the studio. Many budding artists live in the area and use the #FootscrayLibrary extensively I must say that the library has an amazing program catering for all the communities from the Maribyrnong area. Here are some photos of the flatten bottles gathered from one area along French Street( how appropriate). This was before a lovely vietnamese lunch at #PhoHungVuongSaigon next to Nab at 128 Hopkins st, right opposite #Trocadero and #FiveWalls galleries. I always love coming to this restaurant where the locals go and have never been disappointed. That was after I took my friends on a tour of my favorite Footscray market #LittleSaigonMarket where the products are soooo fresh they are s...

Today I met some lovely locals whom wandered into Artsboxmcc. Sold a necklace to Matthew and spoke to Katie a freelance writer. I continue developing the totems and have secured their lining.