In my exhibition at The Lookout, Aldeburgh next week I will be exploring issues surrounding waste packaging. What impact does this waste have on our world? Where does it all come from? As I mentioned in a previous post, the quantity of waste packaging per person in the UK is at a staggering 175kg a year. Only 25% is [...]
Category: Contextual Report
Art is rubbish
In my upcoming exhibition 'Void - The landscape of waste packaging' I use rubbish as the basis and form of my sculptures. I also use everyday concrete to create these molds from packaging. Throughout history artists have found beauty in the ugly and mundane and used the unwanted waste of others to create art. For [...]
Wasteful society
As I mentioned yesterday my upcoming exhibition 'Void - The landscape of waste packaging' is all about the permanence of waste packaging in landfill. As a nation we produce some of the highest amounts of waste packaging per capita in Europe. Although many successful initiatives exist to promote the recycling of our waste packaging the [...]
Contextual Report – the plan
1. How I collected the memory donations (examples of donation forms, imagery of hands carrying out donations, my dialogue will collaborators) 2. Where I collected the donations (the rooms/buildings/settings of the sessions, the people involved) 3. What results I received? - the relation to scientific context (scans of the filled in donation [...]