The Discarded Made Beautiful
A collaborative project by the Ipswich-based Freelance Association to create something beautiful from discarded materials.
Thursday, 7 April 2011
Friday, 14 January 2011
Thursday, 6 January 2011
Sample pieces by Susie Mendelsson
1. Fairy; 2. Meet the Buckles; 3. Tesco board of management; 4. Family values; 5. Happiness in a bottle
These figures were all made from items that would normally have gone into our recycling bin at home: plastic bottles, empty sellotape reels, toilet rolls, buttons, bottle tops, mince pie foil dishes, cardboard wrappers, boxes and the odd found objects like beads and belt buckles. All held together with copious amounts of glue. God bless Tesco packaging!
These figures were all made from items that would normally have gone into our recycling bin at home: plastic bottles, empty sellotape reels, toilet rolls, buttons, bottle tops, mince pie foil dishes, cardboard wrappers, boxes and the odd found objects like beads and belt buckles. All held together with copious amounts of glue. God bless Tesco packaging!
-Susie Mendelsson
Sunday, 28 November 2010
Update from November's meeting
Annabel has completed her tiny triptychs! Fashioned from the wedges she removes from the backs of her canvasses, individually decorated and bearing a miniature version of her paintings inside. The whole opus fits inside a modest-sized box.
Hilli brought along two dishes made from scraps of glass in her kiln. Not the greatest shots, but I wanted to get the light shining through the richly coloured glass. Here also a few of her 'jar melts' (my nomenclature). Anyone visiting Hilli's Christmas gift Open House will know that she's been very prolific recently and a whole family of fascinating jar melts has been created in a wide variety of colours and shapes.
Saturday, 2 October 2010
Wednesday, 15 September 2010
Borin's assemblages
'The eyes have it' (foil pie containers, Guinness can widgets, Co-op stir-fry container, coloured card, black paint, red dye)
'Interior furniture' (medicine bottle top, ring pull, aerosol top, sponge ring, size indicator from clothes hanger, light bulb, crown cork, cassette and mixed media, spray paints)
'Death and the maiden 1' (DVD disc, yoghurt
pot top, shotgun shells)
Death and the maiden 2' (DVD disc, waste kitchen surface, shotgun shells, filler, Alkyd paint)
Thursday, 12 August 2010
Steve Joyce writes...
"The work was made with restrictions to make me create in a different way. There are six sets of images made from sets of 6 pages from discarded magazines, using one image as the basis for selective cutting through the whole lot, producing many interchangable parts. Each of the six images in each set were created from the parts but were compromised by the restriction that all had to say something different yet could not exist to the detriment of others; they all had to work successfully. Some sets where fairly easy to coordinate but others took days of reshuffling of the pieces. Initially the idea was to create the images to be made into sets of six containing one of each set and sell them as multiple packs, but after much work and pain that hardly seems right as others said if they are to sell for the price limit, so they will go as separate items, and I will produce concertina booklets from my images, in sets to sell for the price or under as appropriate." [4 sample sets of images by Steve]
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