Two recycled penguins
I’ve been making penguins from random bits and pieces. Mostly empty paint tubs courtesy of Forest Recycling Project (via East London Community RePaint), but also tennis racquets, a kettle, light fittings, plastic bottles and coathangers and lots of other objects from reclamation yards and charity shops.
I made six in my studio with the help of Alice Power, a fellow artist, and am running penguin-making workshops in a yurt at London Zoo. Some children made four new penguins to add to the expanding colony this weekend, and we’ll be making more from the 18th to the 22nd of December. I’m aiming for at least 20.
I’m also busy making a lifesize recycled camel out of old bits of furniture. It will be taken to the zoo in the next few days, where alongside the penguin-making I’ll be cladding it with hessian coffee sacks, also supplied by Forest Recycling Project.
From the 18th to the 22nd children can also make animal headdresses and masks to join in an animal parade which is part of London Zoo’s Christmas Carnival.
i always think that making art out of old stuff is the best way to recycle things. make something old and unwanted into something desired and needed