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Recycled Christmas Decorations

Tin drum upcycled Christmas Decoration
I recently made some recycled Christmas decorations for Recycle Now.  These are now up on their website and feature on e-cards which you can send to your friends.
Here’s the link:  Recycle Now Christmas 09
The Recycle Now Christmas campaign is trying to make people aware of the waste created at Christmas and [...]

December 3rd, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Art Techniques, Environmentalism, Recycled Art & Craft, Recycling | One comment

A recycled award

Recycled award
Originally uploaded by michelle3duk
I was asked to create an award by LCRN (London Community Resource Network) – their first ever award, for ‘Lifetime Achievement’, to be given to Cam Matheson. Amongst other things, Cam pioneered a scheme for the composting of food waste on the Nightingale Estate in Hackney.
This sculpture is about 30 [...]

October 26th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Awards, Recycled Art & Craft, Recycled Sculpture, Recycling | One comment

Aluminium Can Elk

Aluminium Can Elk
Originally uploaded by michelle3duk

This Elk is made from aluminium cans, with an internal support structure made from wood offcuts. I experimented with lots of different ways of working with the aluminium. Cutting, folding, nailing, wrapping, gluing…
I still need to try soldering – apparently it is possible to solder aluminium cans – [...]

February 6th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Art Techniques, Recycled Art & Craft, Recycled Sculpture | 2 comments