Creative Ideas Turn Trash Into Treasure

Newcastle Herald

Saturday July 12, 2008

By ALISON BRANLEY

HUNTER artists have shown that one man's rubbish is another man's Rembrandt at the annual Waste as Art exhibition.

More than 200 artists submitted works to the exhibition at the Railway Workshops, Honeysuckle.

Highlights of the display include handbags made of bras, chickens made from plastic bags and an aircraft made from soft drink cans.

Junk mail was a popular medium. One artist used catalogues to create a giant apple and another created a paper crane mobile.

There are ballet shoes made out of old computer parts and visitors were abuzz about a mosquito made out of windscreen wipers.

Pianola parts and a bird cage were used to create this year's winning piece, Circus of Lost Souls Peg.A.Seuss, by Robert Callander.

The people's choice award went to a sculpture of a woman made entirely out of horizontal layers of cardboard, called Surf's Up Elle, by Julie Reid.

The exhibition is a project of the Hunter Waste Education Group. Newcastle City Council environmental education officer Alicia Martin said it was designed to get people thinking about the waste they generated.

The exhibition is open Wednesday to Sunday from 10am to 4pm. It includes daily free school holiday workshops to show children how to make waste into art.

To book, call 4974 2847.

© 2008 Newcastle Herald

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