Carolyn Cardinet: Visual Art Blog

Sea Banksia is a new work to be included in the BOAA travelling exhibition for the next 3 months promoting and launching the new Ballarat 'Biennale of Australian Art 2018' Here are the main dates for What's in the Box All Welcome to attend this travelling exhibition 28 September 2017 Ballarat- Ballarat Trades Hall, 24 Camp St 6.30-9.30pm 5 October 2017 '& Gallery' 220 Spencer St-Melbourne 6.30-9pm exhibition continues until 27 October wed-sat 12-5pm 4-7 November 2017 Hepburn Bath house, Hepburn Spring 10-4pm daily Sea Banksia 2017

 Connected 2017 Polyethylene and Led Lights My new illuminated work is on at Cube 37 in a new exhibition encompassing ideas of connection for a group show in August this year. The show will close September 1st and is open during business hours and Saturday mornings till 1pm. http://artscentre.frankston.vic.gov.au/Exhibitions_Festivals/Current_Exhibitions/FAC_Open_Exhibition

This year was a huge event in new premises at the old Melbourne Meat Market. The crowd that came (braving the cold) was amazing and the ambiance in this venue was magical. French food, design, travel combined with lectures and talks made it a special event for all. To add to this, pass the garden and in the stable was La Galerie 17, representing 5 French artists! I was thrilled to be able to present my work in this large warehouse and perfect as a gallery space. Tall ceilings and white walls with natural light coming through was the perfect combination to present art! with curator Heather Van Heerwaarden

An unusual idea came to me while away but always wanted to make. Also the material found were perfect for this project. Collecting, gathering and recording trash while walking the street of Sydney suburbs allowed me to create this work and of course as you will see this happen to look like fashion... squeezing the waistline looking at the tail of the dress  Now do you see what I see when I mention fashion albeit now fashionable trash in Pyrmont and that is where fashion came into my mind

I will be part of the panel for the VIVID Ideas 2017 discussion on  ART SCIENCE AND WONDER Tuesday 13th June 2017 at 6pm UTS Business School (building 8) ULTIMO NSW MICROBEPLASTICA artwork (details) Carolyn Cardinet What Does it Take? Science, Art, Wonder Can you see a future where artists, scientists and business work together to find creative solutions to big problems? It may exist in fragile ecosystems but how can it be sustained? Considering the innovations that Leonardo da Vinci was dreaming up more than 500 years ago, what conditions are required for great ideas to be drawn up for the 21st Century? Patronage was an important catalyst for the Renaissance. What is the role of business and universities in the 21 Century? How can we revision and resource the creative research ecosystem? Many of the speakers have dual or multi disciplinary backgrounds, artist and scientist, scientist and musician, scientist to artist, business science artist, are we all inher...

Mer de Plastique "For most of history, man has had to fight nature to survive, in this century he is beginning to realise that in order to survive, he must protct it" Jacques Cousteau This is a beautiful quote thank you Junkies Magazine for this article in your grest magazine dedicated to all things reused and repurposed! Junkies Magazine - Issue 9 - June 2017 Get the last issue now!

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...