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She also created a new installation consisting of a long plastic "wave" composed by thousands of fragments of recycled plastic bottles. The Vortex, Milan, The Industrial Area of Bracco, 2015 From September to October 2014 the Garbage Patch State is hosted in the UN Secretariat of New York, place symbolizing peace, cooperation and development of ...
Robson's primary focus is creating works made with plastic collected by intercepting the waste stream, [6] [7] repurposing plastic into art before it is sent to recycling. . While her initial work was with common household plastics like water bottles and caps, she is currently focused on large scale sculptures made with industrial plas
Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village, also known as Bottle Village, is an art environment, located in Simi Valley, California. It was created by Tressa "Grandma" Prisbrey (1896–1988) from the 1950s to the 1970s. Prisbey built a "village" of shrines, walkways, sculptures, and buildings from recycled items and discards from the local landfill.
Art made of commodity materials sometimes uses found objects made of plastic. [3] [4] Plastic containers are useful in papier-mâché for building frames. [5] Environmental artists are using salvaged beach plastic to create art as a means of bringing awareness of plastic pollution in Earth's oceans.
Organizers hoped to "creatively raise awareness about plastic debris and pollution in the ocean," specifically the Great Pacific Garbage Patch trapped in the North Pacific Gyre, by sailing 2,600 miles across the Pacific Ocean on a 30-foot (9.1 m) raft made from an old Cessna 310 aircraft fuselage and six pontoons filled with 15,000 old plastic ...
In researching the subject, she discovered that "plastic photodegrades or heat-degrades by breaking apart, but does not disappear." [ 5 ] In 2009, after learning about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch , she founded the Plastic Pollution Coalition (PPC) with her sister, Julia Cohen, Manuel Maqueda, Daniella Russo and Lisa Boyle.
A variety of plastic objects conserved in a museum (Finland) Conservation and restoration of objects made from plastics is work dedicated to the conservation of objects of historical and personal value made from plastics. When applied to cultural heritage, this activity is generally undertaken by a conservator-restorer.
In 1997, Sewell showed in "Hello Again!", a recycled art focused show which opened at the Oakland Museum [9] and travelled throughout North America. The show, curated by Susan Subtle , featured Sewell alongside other artists Mildred Howard , Mark Bulwinkle , Clayton Bailey , Claire Graham, Jan Yager , Remi Rubel, Pippa Garner , and others.