Waste to Art

What’s happening with Waste to Art 2020?

Due to the uncertainty around Covid -19 NetWaste has cancelled the 2020 Regional exhibition which was due to be held July this year at Coonamble. But this doesn’t mean your local coordinator isn’t arranging something for you, several are hosting an online exhibition:

Bathurst info is here

Coonamble info is here

Gilgandra info is here

Orange info is here

Coonamble will again have the opportunity to host the regional exhibition in the Outback Arts Gallery in 2021 and the theme of Steel and Aluminium will follow through too.

Most importantly, if you have created work for 2020 you can still enter it into the 2021 exhibition whether it was displayed online this year or not. So keep working on your amazing creations and we will be back with a bang next year!

2019 WASTE TO ART – OVERALL WINNER

GUS ARMSTRONG

Gus Armstrong has been awarded the 2019 Sims Metal – Waste to Art Overall Prize with his arresting portrait Prisoner encore . Gus is from Mid Western Regional Council.

Gus explains the origins of the work:

‘…Commenting on reflections of our globally changing society and the social frustrations of dealing with mistakes from the past. Feelings of constriction and tangible pain. The push for economic bearing heavy on our chests, choking the very habitat in which we are trying to control. Baling twine discovered in a hay shed, rotten on one side. Neck piece forged from scrap steel… ‘

2020 WASTE TO ART – YEAR OF STEEL AND ALUMINIUM CANS

Waste to Art is a community art exhibition and competition open to all local residents who reside in the NetWaste region. It engages the community and showcases creative works made from reused & recyclable waste materials.

Councils involved host a local competition and the winning artworks are then transported to a Regional Exhibition which is hosted by a different council each year. 2020 will see Coonamble Shire Council hosting the annual Regional Exhibition. The theme for 2020 is steel and aluminium cans.

LOCAL COORDINATORS

BATHURST	ALISON THOMPSON	02 6333 6530
BLUE MOUNTAINS	TANY MEIN	02 4780 5000
BOGAN	ROBYN HARRIS	0428 376 068
BROKEN HILL	JOHN FADDEN	08 8080 3500 0484 303 865
BOURKE	AMANDA SMITH	02 687 22522 \| 0429027992
CENTRAL DARLING	MARGOT MUSCAT	08 80914392 \| 0429 914392
COONAMBLE	MADDIE WARD	02 6822 2484
DUBBO	MARIAM ABBOUD	02 6801 4000
FORBES	CASSANDRA GATES	02 6850 2347
GILGANDRA	MELISSA KELLY	02 6817 8800
LACHLAN	ROWAN BENTICK	02 6895 1974
LITHGOW	SUMMAR HIPWORTH	02 6354 9999
MIDWESTERN	GRACE JONES	0458 646 267
OBERON	ASTRID KRIERNING	02 6329 8123
ORANGE	KATE WILLOUGHBY	0414 081 669
PARKES	KERRYN JONES	02 6861 2309
WALGETT	CATH HISCOX	02 6828 6104
WARREN	JAYMIE-LEIGH SHORTLAND	02 6847 6600
WARRUMBUNGLE	ALLISON RENOYLDS	allison@allison.co or 0412 729 756

Waste 2 Art’s aim is to challenge peoples’ perceptions about ‘rubbish’ and to celebrate the reuse and recycling of waste through arts and crafts. Waste to Art provides an innovative approach to waste education, invites schools and community groups to take up the challenge and create a new life for materials that would otherwise have been thrown away.

Waste to Art. White Trash