Visit to Think Plastic Exhibition:

Artists: Carla Edwards, Lorna Fraser, Fiona R. Hutchison, Fiona Pilgrim, Carol Sinclair, Michael P. Shaver, Peter Wilkie.

Across a range on disciplines from jewellery making, ceramics, tapestry, chemist and tree researcher. The mixture of science, research, art and craft across the whole exhibition. The main attraction to this exhibition was understand how these people were approaching materials in understanding them. Some talking about the beauty in using recycled plastic to make artwork and some were more interested in creating alternative materials that replicate plastic such as seaweed polymers. It was interesting to understand that materials could be made and could replace current existing systems.

There was a clear message to why these people had come together to show alternative methods of making materials and made people question the back log of where our materials come from. Additionally added the questioning of how it gets to an individual but also where does it go once we have used it.

This has made me think about understanding materials more through an autonomy that can easily be given to a material through allowing the conversation with the user and the material/object to occur. Understanding the material through a personified sense suggests greater understanding of the world and the surrounding environment.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Think Plastic Exhibition: Materials and Making / Florence Hargreaves / Presentation: Methods & Context 4 (2020-2021) by blogadmin is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution CC BY 3.0