Waste to Art - Selected works
2023 Living Smart Festival
2023 Living Smart Festival
We are delighted to present selected works from our previous exhibitions and a sneak peak of some 2023 works at the Living Smart Festival on 16 September and the Living Together Festival on 17 September at Speers Point Park.
Visit the 2023 Sustainable Neighbourhoods Waste to Art Exhibition
13 October - 7 December
Across 2 locations: SEEN@Swansea and Toronto Launchpad
Visit the 2023 Sustainable Neighbourhoods Waste to Art Exhibition
13 October - 7 December
Across 2 locations: SEEN@Swansea and Toronto Launchpad
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Archer Le Pool, 6 years old
Robot Household recycling and food packaging items Archer is very aware of wastage and loves creating artworks out of recycled objects. He loves protecting our environment. He always cleans up the parks, playgrounds and beaches if he sees rubbish. He came home from school and started pulling out all of the recycled items and asked with an upset tone: "Why did you throw these away Mum? I could build a robot with these." I said, "No, they are rubbish, please don't make more mess." Archer was persistent with his idea and started building them up to show his vision. I apologised to him for not believing in his idea, and helped him use superglue and sticky tape to put everything together under his supervision. I tried to give him some suggestions but they were all rejected. He was a (little) man on a mission, and he was trying really hard to run around and look for materials for his creation. |
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Britt Timmins
DCCC Dragons
Inspired by sanitary product landfill and created using factory seconds that weren’t able to be used or donated.
DCCC Dragons (800 Dragons) was inspired by sanitary product landfill, Created using factory seconds that weren’t able to be used or donated. It can take up to 800 years for these products to decompose. Dragons aren’t real, but excessive and unnecessary sanitary product landfill is. Each Pad was glued and then hand sewn onto a base of tulle and netting scraps. The natural shapes of the pads have been placed to contour the female form and cross hatched patterns & frills have been created to represent the scales and texture of dragon skin.
DCCC Dragons
Inspired by sanitary product landfill and created using factory seconds that weren’t able to be used or donated.
DCCC Dragons (800 Dragons) was inspired by sanitary product landfill, Created using factory seconds that weren’t able to be used or donated. It can take up to 800 years for these products to decompose. Dragons aren’t real, but excessive and unnecessary sanitary product landfill is. Each Pad was glued and then hand sewn onto a base of tulle and netting scraps. The natural shapes of the pads have been placed to contour the female form and cross hatched patterns & frills have been created to represent the scales and texture of dragon skin.
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Cardiff High School SOAR Special Education Learning Centre, Jai B in Eagle Class
Blue Wren Scrap ply, blue chucks, sponge and paint Jai used blue chucks and sponge to make the bird and painted the background. The background is a scrap price of ply from our TAS Class. |
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Cardiff High School SOAR Special Education Learning Centre, Rosella Class
Birds
The students have use plastic bottle, gloves, chip packets and general waste to create these beautiful birds created from their imagination!
Birds
The students have use plastic bottle, gloves, chip packets and general waste to create these beautiful birds created from their imagination!
Cardiff High School SOAR Special Education Learning Centre, Robin Class
Eagle (Birabahn)
The Eagle SOARS over Awabakal Country, covering the mountains, lakes and beaches. Aluminium cans, plastic recyclable shopping bags, blue string from the side of the road, filling from a pillow and a backing of scrap ply.
Eagle (Birabahn)
The Eagle SOARS over Awabakal Country, covering the mountains, lakes and beaches. Aluminium cans, plastic recyclable shopping bags, blue string from the side of the road, filling from a pillow and a backing of scrap ply.
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Cardiff High School SOAR Special Education Learning Centre, Eagle Class
Galah Plastic straws, plastic bottles and sponge on scrap ply from our TAS class. |
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Cardiff High School SOAR Learning Centre (Special Education), Kookaburra class
Kookaburra Wire, newspaper paper mache, cardboard and shopping bags for the feathers. Kookaburra Class created this sculpture to go with the name of their class and because we have so many beautiful Kookaburras in our school. |
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Cardiff High School SOAR Learning Centre (Special Education), Mia D from Kookaburra class
Little black bird Wire, paper mache and paint |
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Cardiff High School SOAR Special Education Learning Centre, Robin Class
Red Tailed Black Cockatoo
Cardboard base with newspaper paper mache, textile scraps and wool.
We created a Red Tailed Black Cockatoo, nesting with its baby in a hollow tree.
We used cardboard as the base with paper mache using newspaper. We finished with scrap material from our textiles class to make it bright and colourful and the wool to give it some textured pattern over the top.
Red Tailed Black Cockatoo
Cardboard base with newspaper paper mache, textile scraps and wool.
We created a Red Tailed Black Cockatoo, nesting with its baby in a hollow tree.
We used cardboard as the base with paper mache using newspaper. We finished with scrap material from our textiles class to make it bright and colourful and the wool to give it some textured pattern over the top.
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Dianne Powell
Captain Thunderbolt Acrylics on an old piece of corrugated iron. Also known as Fred Ward, a famous bushranger, who roamed the New England area. He was a childhood 'hero'. I had the piece of corrugated iron in a stash for years, not sure where it originated now, but I had an idea after seeing an exhibition in Broken Hill, by Sydney artist Justine Muller, who had painted the townspeople of Wilcannia on iron for 'Barka, The Forgotten River' or the Darling River. The initial drawing was a rough sketch that came from my head. The artwork was composed at Yara Balba Art Studio at Mandalong under the tutelage of Margrete Erling. I decided to add the real leather and brass buckle to add interest and texture. |
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Dianne Powell
Bits and Pieces Broken china pieces, marbles, flat glass bead and tin I had collected broken pieces of china over years and had them stored in a glass container that I walked past every day. One day I thought I'll make something out of those. So, I painted a board then added glue and river sand, let dry then painted again to make a rough surface that maybe resembled sand. When I started to lay out the pieces there was a shape that occurred organically that looked like a seahorse. I also used some marbles and a flat glass bead for the eye. An old piece of tin I'd found out in the desert became the nameplate which is Bits and Pieces. |
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Emmy Chilcott-Birch, Allambi Care
Lillies Made from rubbish mainly from roadside throw-outs: Conduit pipe and various electrical wires. Plastic tops, children’s toy and Christmas decorations. |
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Gabrielle Clappison
The Eyes Have It Jean belt loops, seams, parts of waistbands, buttons and a reused photo frame. Using jean belt loops, seams, parts of waistbands, buttons, and a reused photo frame, I created an artwork of eyes. Jeans can be a wonderful and useful resource, they have such a wide range of possibilities, so much opportunity to reuse and repurpose this hard-wearing fabric. I wanted to create an artwork that encouraged people to think about their actions towards their carbon footprint and waste. The individual's actions are not always seen by others, but their results affect our community as a whole. This artwork was inspired to hopefully encourage the observer to reflect on their environmental footprint and do better. |
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Jason Kacarovski and Emmy Chilcott-Birch, Allambi Care
Robot Made from rubbish mainly from roadside throw-outs and out of Winding Creek Charlestown: Old water cooler, plastic drum, speakers, building waste. The head is filled with plastic and rubbish collected from the start of Winding Creek, Charlestown. |
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Jason Kacarovski, Emmy Chilcott-Birch, Peter Lees and Natt R Vest, Allambi Care
Turtle Made from rubbish mainly from roadside throw-outs and out of Winding Creek Charlestown, and Newcastle Harbour: Metal BBQ top, wooden furniture, old tin, garden hose, metal stand. The plastic and bottles, foam float, thongs, are from Winding Creek and Newcastle Harbour. |
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Kim Harris, Allambi Care
Chicken Made from rubbish from roadside throw-outs: broken kettle, discarded timber, brush, a children’s toy, and cutlery. The artwork is filled with collected roadside litter from the Charlestown area. |
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Mardi Lee
Calamities of consumption Wood panel from furniture, textile and sewing waste (denim jeans, embroidery thread, macrame rope offcuts, buttons, bra wire), marine debris, bread ties, old upholstery tacks, copper wire from electrical cord. A ridiculously high 85% of discarded plastics go to Australian landfills. These are not just single-use plastics, but plastics of every kind. This big statistic is in the 2020 National Waste report and brought the reality of plastic waste closer to home. My piece is influenced by the intricacies of the ocean and beaches in my backyard. Unfortunately, the plastic pieces are slowly impacting the teeniest of sea creatures, upsetting the balance of the ecosystem. Waste and pollution become disguised as a bluebottle or jellyfish to the animals that eat them. In addition, increasing acidification and water temperatures affect the health of seaweed. |
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Melinda Hicks
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Natt R Vest, Allambi Care
Dog Made from rubbish from roadside throw-outs: Plastic container, plumbers pipe, wooden furniture, bottle tops and dust vacuum. |
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Peter Lees, Allambi Care
Giraffe Made from rubbish mainly from roadside throw-outs and out of Winding Creek Charlestown: old plastic barrel, furniture and discarded timber for legs, fast food tops, old swimming pool pump, Christmas decoration, hammock, golf balls, wooden spoons and pvc pipe. |
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Tracy Novello
Hand sewn rag dolls Traditional rag dolls created from recycled clothing. Tracy Novello, Contemporary Artist living and working in Swansea NSW, BA FineArts University of Western Sydney. During COVID, I became a grandmother so started handsewing for my grandchildren. The rag doll pattern for these hand sewn dolls is from my own childhood rag doll, Looby Loo who is now in her late fifties! Now all my grandchildren and friends children have been gifted a rag doll which I hope they will love as much as I love Looby Loo. I made these two ladies for the Waste to Art exhibition for me, so they are a little bit quirky, all hand sewn and the clothes are all from recycled clothing, with other bits and pieces from op shops. |
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Vicki Harrington
Bluebell
Blue tongue lizard made from recycled packing materials
Bluebell
Blue tongue lizard made from recycled packing materials
