Carolyn Cardinet: Visual Art Blog

Two years ago I had the privilege to be asked to put up a show for the Sustainable Living Festival and this year I am participating in the decor for the 200 guests+ table for the Great Local Lunch  which will allow me to use many of the single-use packaging I have gleaned, foraged and collected the last few months. The event will take place Subday 14 February at Birramung Mar. If you would like to win 2 tickets enter this events look through the website  During the month of February 2016 many events will take place a calendar of venues and events is available on the  website: Slf.org

48 artists are represented at this year Yarra Sculpture Gallery Art Prize Opening 4-7pm this Saturday 12 December 201 2015 Participating Artists Fredrick White Louis Balis Heinz Boeck Aneta Bozic Tanja George David Waters Tas Wansbrough Sione Francis Liz Walker Helen Braun Maggie Brown Penny Algar Veronica Caven Aldous Conrad Clark Robert Waghorn Brendon Taylor Takahiko Sugawara Kerry Strauss Andrew Paul Smith Maria Simonelli Faustas Sadaustas Stephanie Robinson Katerina Richardson Jackie Ralph Herbz Rah Anna Prifti Merle Parker Linda Oy Ho Deidre Oliver Akiko Nagino Tracey Lamb Katherine Marmaras Richard Monger Robert Mihajlovski Anne-Marie Kuter Glen Jackson Paul Gorman Felicity Gordon Ernst Fries Julian Martino Yuko Dora Justine Cromb Betty Collier iChing2 Carolyn Cardinet Katy Bowman Suzanne Kaldor Cliff Burtt

Wednesday 25 November 2015, 11.00 am  to  Thursday 31 December 2015, 11.00 pm Carolyn Cardinet's  Like and oil spill, plastic never goes away  is an all black immersive installation comprising assorted discarded black plastic and fibreglass PVC mesh. The exhibition space is transformed into a window that reflects on the state of the ocean seabed. This work is assembled out of the black plastic that Cardinet has collected from Port Phillip Bay and gleaned from the streets around her studio. As the artist states, "Most of the plastic ‘detritus’ appearing in the work passed through someone's 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, like this installation, being strewn with debris that will never disappe...

Opening 25 October the show is on till 6 December 2015. A beautiful exhibition on the Yering Station winery ground showing the width and breath of Contemporary Sculpture.               Photo by Tracey Lamb 'My work is intended to draw attention to the worldwide problem of mass production and senseless waste of plastic packaging. I choose to create large visually beautiful sculptural work to prompt questions about the affect and effect that single-use plastics have on our environment.'

    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.                  ...

Like an oil spill Plastic never goes away Is an installation specifically designed for the Curio Space for the city of Mannigham MC2 square             Install day a long way to go

Installation of Poly-sea-jelly on scaffolding went according to plan with a slight and change for the better.  Looking forward to seeing you on Oct 25 for the official opening at Yering Station in the Yarra Valley.