Waste to Art Wollondilly, Exhibition and Competition 2023
12.30pm-2pm Thursday 6 & 10am-2pm Friday 7 – Saturday 8 July at Wollondilly Shire hall
Our region’s premier Waste to Art exhibition. With $2700 in prizes on offer. A gallery full of creative treasure made from trash. Be dazzled and amazed by what’s not going to landfill or ending up in our environment.
12.30pm Thurs 6 July – Don’t miss the opening event and announcement of this years’ winners followed by refreshments.
If you are interested to purchase a work please contact us.
Waste to Art Wollondilly is an annual Wollondilly Shire Council project delivered by STA.
Illegal Dumping of waste is an issue in our community find out more further down this page with a vist to the Bargo Resource Management Centre…
OPEN – (18+) $2000 1st Prize $1,300 / 2nd Prize $400/ 3rd Prize $300 / 4th Prize $100
Al Phemister
Hope
Reclaimed steel, wire netting & discarded clothes
Hope is a Regent Honeyeater, featuring Hoary Sunrays. Critically endangered with remnant populations in the Yass Valley. Made at a community workshop.
1000 x 1200 x 1800mm
NFS
WINNNER OPEN – (18+) 1st Prize $1,300
Small Impact Studio
The bottle dissected
1 Glass wine bottle
Transforming glass wine bottles into stunning jewellery & tableware through meticulous craft
Dimensions variable
Earrings $65 Necklace $95 Vase $45 & Bowl $60 Enquire
WINNNER OPEN – (18+) 2nd Prize $400
Dinah Vandermeys
Sweet Virginia
Chair, light bulbs, cigar case, timber
420x100x440mm
$40 Enquire
WINNNER OPEN – (18+) 3rd Prize $300
Linda Burgess
Whales, mother and calf
Reclaimed wood, steel, papier-mache of paper, canvas, fabric & plastic
The ‘save the whales’ campaign is where I first learned about the impact of people power on the environment.
215x600x420mm & 110x375x 410mm
$315 Enquire
WINNNER OPEN – (18+) 4th Prize $100
Ally-Francis
Untitled
Metal & plastic
Created at a Waste to Art school workshop at Picton High School.
100x100mm
NFS
Al Phemister
The Gorl in the red pear dress Discarded steel tools
180x110x400mm
$350 Enquire
Andrew May
Girth
Recycled food produce cans and bottles
The work is a reflection of manufactured food production and wastage that as a consumer is over looked with daily food intake.
2300x800x600mm
$1200 Enquire
Daljeet Gill
Torn place mat
Glass bottles & cans
SIZE
$30 Enquire
Daljeet Gill
Castle garden
Glass bottle, egg carton, cardboard.
SIZE
$50 Enquire
Daljeet Gill
Untitled
Glass Alcohol Bottle, wedding invite & broken necklace.
SIZE
$35 Enquire
Eddie Mo
Walled In
Empty spray paint cans
SIZE
$200 Enquire
Eddie Mo
Free as a Bird
Suitcase, tranist tickets & coins
SIZE
$300 Enquire
Gillian Middleton
Everlasting Protea
Metal
A tribute to the season and my protea farm.
600x250x250mm
$500 Enquire
Heather Ruhl
The B Box
Bubble wrap, box, bottle, bottle tops, bra-pads, broaches, bangles
My art journey is endless.
305x500mm
$10 Enquire
Ingrida Spole
Little Library
Fence pickets,plywood, glass, scrapmetal & used roofing screws
I love making things out of as much recycled material as possible.
100x600cx400mm
NFS Enquire
Jamie Te Huia
SWITCHED OFF
Metal, plastic & copper
We are more capable than we give ourselves credit for. With the amount of rubbish we throw out, it is a shame we call orselves the more suprior species on the planet.
200x700mm
$600 Enquire
Jan Heslep
Magpie
Wooden door, unwanted tiles, blue paint & buttons
Magpies sing beautifully for us. I wanted to capture their cheekiness and the joy they bring when visiting our gardens.
95x540mm
NFS
Jean Mills
Mrs fandango
Old fan, wire & glasses
200x200mm
$2 Enquire
Jean Mills
Circles in circles
Bike wheel, srcap metal & found objects
800x2000mm
$POA Enquire
Jodie Munday
Autumn
Wire garden frame, recycled paper raffia & orange plastic fencing
I use traditional & contemporary weaving methods with natural, recycled & found materials to promote sustainability & caring for Country.
120x270mm
$980 Enquire
Jodie Munday
summer grasses
Broken embroidery frame, raffia, sun-bleached cotton, wooden beads &leather offcuts
300m diameter
$300 Enquire
Linda Burgess
Magic Carpet Ride
Rusted fireplace tool, insulation, rusted wire, copper scrap, door knob, counter sinker bits & glue 200x150x300mm
$50 Enquire
Linda Burgess
Nessy
Scrap metal, rusty wire, counter sinking bits, light globe
300x150x300mm
$65 Enquire
Mel Lyons
Daisy Chain
I enjoy exploring the juxtaposition between the fragility of flowers and the hard, inflexible nature of metal.
300x90mm 4 pieces
NFS
Narelle Noppert
Blue & Jenny Wren (Diptych)
Pallett wood and old ply wood, scrap tiles, glass, wood & feathers
330x260mm & 300x250mm
$150 Enquire
Narelle Noppert
A pyramid of plates old discarded plates
350x320mm
$80 Enquire
Narelle Noppert
Vase of old china
Sliced old timber, broken china vase & flowers
800x170mm
NFS
Patricia Riley
Rags to riches
Denim jeans, dress belt/sash, recycled bed sheet
My passion for recycling clothing originated when my granddaughter outgrew her favourite outfit.
450x400mm 2 pieces
$55 Enquire
Patricia Riley
Pillow past
Doilies, recycled buttons, & fabric serviette
My use of recycled clothing reduces landfill & gives the items a new life which often has a story from its origins.
470x 470mm
$65 Enquire
Ray McJannett
Bird house
Discarded bee boxes, cedar venetian blinds, fence palings, rusted metal objects
My work is usually constructed entirely from material I find at my local garbage tip in Gunning NSW.
770x400x240mm
NFS
Rose Shaw
Woven basket small
Electrical wire & raffia
110x60mm
POA
Enquire
Rose Shaw
Woven basket large
Electrical wire & raffia
120x80mm
POA
Enquire
Ray McJannett
Shrine
Old Baltic Pine door, cedar, glass, & gold leaf
1100x450x90mm
NFS
Sharon Hall
Waste is for the Birds! Collected scraps, embroidery thread, sewing thread, tapestry yarn & wooden cotton reels.
210x120mm
$300 Enquire
Sharon Hall
My Waste is Tiny!
Denim, vintage thread, bias binding, found bamboo handles, cross-stitches, sewing notions, tapestry canvas, lining made with my great-grandmother’s potholders
430x430x140mm
$600 Enquire
Sharon Hall
Dinner with No Leftovers
I love collecting other’s no-longer-wanted embroidery threads and unfinished projects to incorporate them into my current embroidered work
700x580mm
$300 Enquire
YOUTH (12 -17 YRS)
Wollondilly Anglican students
Rainbow recycling
Cardboard & plastic
A collaboration of year 4 & year 10 Visual Arts students from Wollondilly Anglican College
900x50x1200mm 7 pieces
NFA WINNER YOUTH (12 -17 YEARS) $200
Rory Dickeson
Franklin the turtle
Bike parts, timber, foil
Year 8 support unit at Picton High School. Created at a Waste to Art school workshop.
Dimensions variable
$50 Enquire
WINNER YOUTH (12 -17 YEARS) $200
Caitlin Sharp
Blooming Trash
Plastic, wire coat hangers, yogurt container, batteries & hot glue
500x500x300mm
Inspired by the amount of garbage that students discard through the school playground.
$50 Enquire
Charlie Ruskin
Trash into treasure
Wire, plastic & old vase
Year 7 Picton High School. Created at a Waste to Art school workshop.
Dimensions variable
$25 Enquire
Jay-Ella Gibbs, Alice Woods, Bethany Woods & Yu’rana Carr
Suburbia
Year 7 Picton High School. Created at a Waste to Art school workshop.
Dimensions variable
$25 Enquire
Xavier English-Nelson
the weight of the world
Metal & plastic
400x200mm
$5 Enquire
JUNIOR ( 7 – 11 YRS)
Owen Taylor
Steam Train
Aluminium can, cardboard, hot glue, bottle caps, electric tooth brush head, texta, pen, straws, plastic, metal & toys 350x150x250mm
$50 Enquire
WINNER JUNIOR (7-11 YEARS) $200
Daphne Robinson
turtle tears
Plastic bags,dog tins,chicken trays
850x550mm
Turtles are one of the many sea creatures struggling from pollution. They will live longer if we stop illegal dumping.
$20 Enquire
WINNER JUNIOR (7-11 YEARS) $200
Anika & Tori
The Junk Wave
Canvas, lids, wire, mesh, plastic, corks & face masks
450x 800mm
Saving the ocean is important & recycled materials can send a strong message.
$55 Enquire
Tobias Taylor
Jellyfish wreath
Plastic bottles, plastic bags, Yoghurt lids, food containers, bubble wrap, coat hanger, mums face cream tubes & hot glue
50 x 100 x 10 cm
$15 Enquire
Not So Fun Fact
Illlegal dumping of waste is a problem in our community. Waste that is illegally dump could end up in our creeks, rivers and bush land.
Here’s a list of common illegally dumped items in Wollondilly. (ordered by number of incidents, rather than total weight)
- Mattresses
- Tyres (currently a big problem with over 30 tyres recently dumped in local bush land and waterways)
- Furniture, especially lounges, cupboards etc
- Bricks and concrete, tiles, timber
- Carpet
- Cardboard & packaging materials, plastic, paper
- Clothing
- Whitegoods
- Exercise equipment e.g. treadmill, exercise bikes
- TV’s, appliances, microwaves, toasters (E waste)
- Gas bottles
- Oil & Oil bottles
Waste to Art Wollondilly is a Wollondilly Shire Council project delivered by STA.
- Find out about the problem of Illegal Dumping in our Community at Bargo Resoucre Centre
- Get inspired with online Waste2Art activities at STAkids
- Need more inspiration? See past exhibitions and workshops.
Apart from Making Art there are lots of ways you can help prevent waste ending up in our rivers and bush. The EPA or Environmental Protection Agency has heaps of info so you can get active and be part of the solution…
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