Carolyn Cardinet: Visual Art Blog

Bonanza 2016 is on at the  Yarra Sculpture Gallery  The opening is this saturday 3-5pm all welcome   117 Vere St, Abbotsford   Abbotsford ​  Exhibition Dec 8-18 2016   www.contemporarysculptorsassociation.org.au

For Immerse Art Festival I have chosen to exhibit at Knox Community Arts Centre a work titled Fan-Tastic. This work has been developing for the last 2 years. Finding and collecting new plastic means adding new pieces to Fan-Tastic, a massive wave of circular plastic assemblage. Single-use plastic are the plague of the last 60 years spreading over the past 2 centuries as we consume them at a rapid rate for 5-20mns and then throw them away. But where do they actually go?  Out of sight doesn't mean away away as society slowly is realising this fact, plastic is now coming to haunt us because plastic doesn't disappear... It stays and it lays there polluting in full sight our landscapes around the world contributing to gigantic open air dumps created to hide and get rid of our massive plastic consumption. Plastic also floats in our oceans which harms our sea life as they feed on it. Fan-Tastic represents some of the beautiful sea creatures disapearing in our oceans.  ...

While jet lagged I am writing a quick note to say that am back online and in the flesh in Australia. I have seen new and old sites that took my breath away, I have laughed and been myself as I had not done in many years, I have enjoyed and discovered many foods, I have seen many old friends and family and encountered and befriended people from all parts of the globe, I have been on adventures on uncharted territories and left traces of my passage there through my art installation but most of all I blessed my time overseas...France-Spain-Portugal you unveiled your true European beauty and it is with this message of gratitude that in the next posts I will reveal the works I could achieve whilst away in my artist residency in Spain at Can Serrat at the bottom of this gigantic mountain 'Montserrat'.

Whaaaat! but just for a few weeks as am off to an artist residency in Spain I am getting exited to inpregnate myself with my new surroundings culture and art while bathing myself in this new autumn sunlight. I shall be off the grid for the next 6 weeks and will let you know all about it upon my return... Hasta la Vista! Meanwhile...

It is that time of the year again and I am getting prepared to go on my 2016 Can Serrat artist residency in Spain at the bottom of Mount Serrat 40kms away from Barcelona this September. I am very excited to refresh my artist soul, fill my image library and see what else is out there plus visit my family and friends in Paris and later on in Portugal. I will be developing new series influenced by my surroundings as I would like to surrender to my new environment and I cannot wait to show you the results as I will go dark for the next 6 weeks and will live a life of serenity without any social media (so she says)... Upon my return, I will hang a large work in 'Immerse'.Thisexhibition program, features acclaimed and emerging artists. 30 exhibitions over 30 days in 30 venues divided between 6 curators in Knox city so keep your ears open... Till then keep SAFE and keep SANE - be creative no matter what!  Organic Plastic at Unicorn Lane Gallery Ballarat (detail) on 24/7 t...

All works are installed in Ballarat. Organic Pladtic is an ensemble of white plastic detritus assembled and twined with organic matter the show is on till 29 Sept at the Unicorn Lane Gallery in Ballarat. The installation team - great work team

Today I thought I would bring some night shots of my work present at the Gettrude Street Projection Festival 2016 to you... Swarming 2016 This project was based on the flimsy plastic packaging used in our society. Five large jellyfish graced the Atherton Gardens at the intersection of Brunswick & Getrudes streets.  During the day this installation of a ngels could be seen floating in the trees. Juxtaposing the organic and the influence of the affluent plastic getting trapped within our natural environment.