22 October to 30 November
OPENING EVENT: Friday 25 October, 5.30–7.30pm
In Un-waste the fascination with materials and the variety of artworks is the primary reward for the visitor. They are celebratory statements of re-use. Fun and irreverent, ’look at me’ pieces of art to be enjoyed.
They are fresh and not too serious in a cultural tradition often highjacked by commercial agendas or misunderstood as self-important and pretentious.
The nine local artists invited to contribute did art at art school. Part of their current art practice involves using pre-used materials to make new art works.
The pieces on show have combined methods learned at art school with unexpected source material.
Nicky Nation’s piece combines recognisable finds of the tip shop with her carefully hand sewn elements from other work to offer her visual pun of recycling.
Glenice Griffiths’ pristine white ceramic pieces result apple peels dipped repeatedly in porcelain slip until the resulting fragile narrow forms are carefully balanced in a raw structure. The structures are hand painted with glaze then undergo the fierceness of the kiln. The final forms are unpredictably transformed in the firing and survive with a spikey elegance.
Terri Friesen is known for her inventive use of fabric and fibre more often after a human intervention such as shrinking or drinking. She makes art from leftovers and combines with great skill of hand craft techniques.
Liz Perfect uses wonderful warm relics of yesteryear’s home entertainment combined with printmaking, and in addition using a QR code, you are invited into an additional sensory visual.
Susie Losch has made sculptural works from recycled materials for many years using paper, shredded and manipulated in 2005, and textile waste on an industrial scale. They stand as extremely contrasting visual statements sharing the language of art in terms of texture, scale, material, colour, one an assemblage, the other an industrial extrusion repurposed on a familiar ‘plinth’.
Toilet paper wrappers are the basis of woven works by Mary-Jane Griggs. These have had their initial use and then gathered, twisted extended and used again to weave. Colour, repetition, scale and simplicity are key. They have had their primary use, rarely taken into shared spaces yet ideal for new work.
Pods have fascinated Colleen Adams since childhood. This project is a continued journey, weaving, wrapping and stitching on to vines from my garden, using wool, silks and cotton threads from my mother’s sewing basket. Playing with the colours of the changing seasons.
Ilona Belle traverses the written pages of discarded books isolating words to create poems gifted to the viewer.
Bec Alker-Jones transforms the ubiquitous variety of handmade clothes hangers into fun, strange, loud rounded forms referred to as Mounds.
Snapshots presentation from our Opening Night (or click image below)
Thank you to Sarah Mifsud for creating this memorable presentation of photos.
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