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 [...]
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 [...]
I have a couple of exhibitions coming up.
The first is at the Changing Room Gallery in Lloyd Park, Walthamstow. It opens on Monday (17th August) and runs until the 23rd. A solo show of my recycled sculptures featuring The Mugridges. A recent commission for Epsom and Ewell Borough Council, The Mugridges are a family of [...]
RedshankWWT
Originally uploaded by michelle3duk
This is the sculpture I made for the Recycled Sculpture Show at London Wetland Centre in Barnes. I used 3 types of venetian blind (wood, metal and plastic), plus lots of other recycled materials – e.g. shelf brackets for the beak, shower curtain hooks for the talons.
The exhibition is on until [...]
I’ve just added my website to One Million Points of Light, a global online art project by Nottingham-based artist Andrew Pepper. You ‘turn on’ your blocks of light, to become part of a network of websites which is also an everchanging visual image.
When the project ends at some point in 2010, a three-dimensional holographic image [...]
The Mugridge Family, originally uploaded by michelle3duk.
I was commissioned to make these sculptures by Epsom and Ewell Borough Council. They are a life-size portrait of a family of four made from their own recyclables.
They have been created to support Epsom and Ewell’s new kerbside recycling scheme, which will be launched in February 2009. [...]
Self portrait close-up, originally uploaded by michelle3duk.
This is a life-size self-portrait sculpture made from household waste.
She had her first outing at my open studios in Walthamstow, and I also took her to the Recycling and Waste Management exhibition at the NEC in Birmingham last [...]
Fox2, originally uploaded by michelle3duk.
I was at the Recycling and Waste Management exhibition at the NEC in Birmingham last week.
I was the only artist amongst lots of machinery and other recycling businesses.
I made this fox from scratch over the three days that I was [...]
Arts in the Park, originally uploaded by michelle3duk.
I created 3 sculptures of swimmers in the park this Sunday. This one is doing front crawl. The other two were a swimmer on a diving block about to dive, and a synchronised swimmer (only legs visible). I had lots of help from local children, [...]
Studio building on Blackhorse Lane, Walthamstow
A few exhibitions coming up. This Sunday (24th August) I’m going to be at Arts in the Park, in Black Park, South Buckinghamshire. I’ll be making work on the day – swimmers made of junk! The event runs from 11am til 4pm.
Then, 12th to 14th September I have an Open [...]
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