Tag Archive for 'recycled art'

Things We Love: Recycled Toy Sculptures

april published on April 11, 2010 in art. 2 Comments Tags: , , , .

Hello, SuperForesters!

Meet Robert Bradford – a UK artist who turns discarded stuff (ie toys, cans, pegs and other miscellaneous bits and bobs) into incredible 3D animal sculptures.

Robert says: “There are many reasons for choosing scrap, the obvious first one being financial. I have always enjoyed working on a physically large scale, paintings that you could feel that you could enter, sculptures larger than life … I like materials that have already had a life, have been part of other peoples’ lives. To me, the fact that these things have been used, touched by humans for other reasons than making art automatically adds depth to the work by giving it a history both separate to the work and integrated within it. The toys are mini sculptures designed by uncredited people. It is both theft and accreditation.”


A short 2008 interview with the man himself.

Check out Robert’s website to see his other jaw dropping puppies.

April

Things We Love: The Recycled Art Company’s “License Plate Map”!

carla published on November 19, 2009 in art. 2 Comments Tags: , , .

The Recycled Art Company is a husband and wife collaboration and the pair has been creating eco-friendly art from salvaged materials for over 10 years! (Awwwww!!!) They’ve crafted a pretty fabulous United States map made out of recycled license plates and I must say, the result is pretty breathtaking!

Recycled Materials + Ultimate Creativity = Awesomeness in its pure concentrate form. Siempre.

To check out more of the charming work by the Recycled Art Company, check out their website here!

(found via the jailbreak!)

100 Ways To Make The World A Better Place: #94

april published on June 15, 2009 in zeitgeist. 1 Comment Tags: , , , , .

Sydney-siders will probably already be familiar with Reverse Garbage  – a not-for-profit cooperative that takes industrial and commercial scraps and sells them to peeps like you and I. We can use these bits and pieces for arts, craft, education, home renovation etc. The real clencher is that less waste will go to landfill, which puts a big smile on Mama Earth’s beautiful face.

For my 19th birthday a few years back, my best mate picked up a big purple cylindrical tub from Reverse Garbage and filled it with cut up tissue and a bunch of presents. I later used it as a stand for my Casio keyboard, then a few years later as a storage bin for my netball trophies. I think it’s fun to see how many uses you can come up with for every random object you have. Do you, perhaps, have a few empty glass jars you can fill with homemade cookies and seal with pretty fabric and a piece of string? Voila! You’ve just re-birthed that jar into a totally brilliant gift.

Don’t lose it if you can re-use it.

Yours,
April

Recycled Art goes Gold

jordan published on March 5, 2009 in art. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

SuperForester Julius has been leading a wonderful discussion every monday on Modern Art.  Inspired, I thought I’d jump into the fray.

Here is a beautiful installation I stumbled upon in the De Young Museum in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park.

p1000882The installation is called Hover II by African artist El Anatsui, and as the placard described, it is made entirely of flattened aluminum bottle caps, woven together with copper wire.  Here are more images of this artists’ beautiful work:

Though SuperForest has written about recycled art before (such as Kim Graham’s crazy eco-troll!), there is a world of amazing art out there to be discovered.  So if you find something, please let SuperForest know!

Much love,

Jordan

Art makes the world go round

april published on August 19, 2008 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

Hey SuperForest peeps!

Meet Virginia Fleck. She’s a super talented NY-born artist who, using only plastic bags and tape, put together an amazing series of mandalas (mystic circular symbols of the universe, used chiefly by Hindus and Buddhists as an aid to meditation). I hereby challenge you to make your own! Use whatever materials you have lying around and have fun.