I have been commissioned to make some large public artworks from recycled materials. The first of these was a brief from the Brisbane City Council. The brief was to use leftover roadside materials and make a public art sculpture as an entrance to one of its prominent suburbs, following a substantial realignment of the traffic entry to this suburb.
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This was a very challenging commission, which I responded to wholeheartedly, knowing that the use of any form of recycled materials was something that I could now harness and be creative with without hesitation.
This project ended up being very successful and is now testament to a heraldic entrance statement, which received enormous community approval.
The project took nine months and set the scene for future large-scale works.
Another large project, which was hot on the heels of this last public artwork, was to receive an invitation by Absolut of Sweden to become the first Australian artist to be commissioned to join the Absolut Art Series. Again this ended up being a great project.
The team from Absolut, were all lateral thinkers, which made things go really smoothly. ?They were very open to the ideas that I had for this project and ended up becoming so excited about the whole thing that they commissioned a small movie to be made about the project for their own PR. I also made a movie about the whole project. Since then I’ve gone on to work with many other recycled materials including working with by-products from the plastics industry known as “Purges”.
These recycled materials come in the form of plastic blobs that are spat out of machines at the end of a run of plastic bottles or toothbrushes or combs etc. I ended up making sculptures from those objects as well is making paintings of these objects. I also made a series of installations using these recycled objects and a series of drawings of them.
