Plastic Waste
In 2019, I began stitching and binding waste plastic into sculptural forms to highlight issues around single-use products. I became interested in ‘locking’ plastics within my artwork when I learned about the drastic shortcomings of recycling. I began by incorporating water bottles and carrier bags, but was soon experimenting with a wide variety of items. Plastic is not an easy material to stitch, but I enjoy the challenge of bending it to my will and the playfulness involved in creating unexpected outcomes from over-familiar, often ugly materials, presenting them anew, enhanced by thread.
Trying to Find Our Way 2019
Plastic bags; velour thread; cotton thread; wire.
2m x 80 cm
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Woe Betide Us 2019
Plastic bags; plastic bottles; embroidery silks; cotton thread.
4.m x 1.5m x 70cm
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Air Drawing 2019
Plastic bags; embroidery silks; cardboard waste packaging; wire.
114cm x 90cm x 42cm
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Chameleon-Eyed Art Hat
Plastic carrier-bags & vegetable sacks; wire; embroidery silks.
D35 x W35x H52 cm
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Cellophane Art Hat
Cellophane packaging; vegetable sacks; wire; embroidery silks.
D35 x W35x H51 cm
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Candy-Stripe Art Hat
Plastic carrier-bags / bottle tops / veg sacks; embroidery silks; wire.
D35 x W30 x H52cm
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Coffee-Roses Art Hat
Takeaway-drink lids, milk-bottle tops, silver packaging, veg sacks; embroidery silks; wire.
D35 x W35 x H52 cm
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Toy-Tat Art Hat
Plastic toys, veg sacks; embroidery silks; wire.
D52 x W52 x H56 cm
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Sampa Laut (‘Sea Trash’)
Plastic carrier-bags; embroidery silks; plastic bottle
D24 x W24 x H28 cm
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An-enemy no 1 2019
Plastic carrier bags; embroidery silks; plastic bottle core.
D27 x W27 x H27cm
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Tequila Sunrise 2019
Plastic bottle; tile spacers; organza; embroidery silks.
D13 x W15 x H26
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Plastic Vessel 2019
Plastic bottle; tetra-carton ring-pulls; wool.
H11 x W12 x D12 cm
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