Creating art about our environment
ART is a means to reduce waste. Since 2019, I have been a member of Zero Waste on Magnetic Island. During this time using waste to make art has become a critical aspect or shift from my environmental work. As my knowledge increases and the threats of Climate Change become more urgent, my need for self-education becomes paramount. Working with others in problem-solving collaboratively and collectively supports our mission to best manage our local environment.
The Zero Waste Collective wove individual rocks, stingrays, corals, trees, birds and fish. Then each was sewn individually onto the net as a landscape.
This net was used 10 years earlier. I have pulled off all the deteriorated art works.
Along this journey, I have educated myself by volunteering in several ways from being a science citizen to joining community groups to support and protect our environment.
Apart from sharing the coordination of a pleinair art group who meets weekly, I also coordinate the Zero Waste Volunteer group and I am an active member of Acadia Coast Care. All of these groups actively embrace a vision for protecting our World Heritage Island on the Great Barrier Reef.
This has led me to use waste in my collective art projects.
These photos will take you through the process we went through over a 5 months period as a collective.
This is the Osprey bringing a fish to its chick. This experience can be witnessed on Alma bay as the nest is reused annually.
We finally hung the finished tapestry in the Magnetic Island Ferry Terminal. This way the public could read about it as well as see it.
