Nerissa Cargill Thompson explores environmental issues in her work. Mindful of the entirety of the climate crisis, she considers many themes from plastic pollution and waste, through textile art, using recycled materials. Nerissa particularly uses old clothing, and creates mixed-media sculptures from textiles and concrete (and more recently papercrete). She casts her work in the […]
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by Veronica Sekules We need to transform our attitudes to waste . It needs to be rehabilitated. Not as an inconvenience, nor as a disgusting embarrassment, nor even as a potentially random commercial resource. Waste needs to be recognised with its potential for longevity and status-change as art and heritage. Categories matter. A shift in […]
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Join Kaitlin Ferguson on 23rd September for an enjoyable workshop around our kitchen table learning to make 3D printed items from waste and biomaterials like coffee and chalk
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Join an extraordinary waste walk with Kai Lossgott and try out his toolkit for the ecological imagination. Part of the Norfolk & Norwich Festival. Suitable for families.
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Join renowned writer Patricia Mullin to be inspired by the Art of Waste to create your own word compositions
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March 18 – July 15 2023 Art redefining what waste means. An exhibition which brings creative approaches to the problems of resource use and resilience. Artists: Jeremy Butler, Liz Elton, Caroline Hyde Brown, Lizzie Kimbley, Kai Lossgott, Eugene Macki, Jan Eric Visser, Rain Wu Art redefining what waste means We are thinking about what is […]
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Throughout lockdown, artists have been immensely resourceful by looking harder at local detail. Sometimes they found it on their excursions, often however it was right under their noses at home. Constantly, they contributed ideas to a wider narrative about the environment.
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Jan Eric Visser pursues a highly original and unique practice as a sculptor. He works exclusively from his private inorganic household waste. Visser constructs all his forms from household trash, but you would never know that. They have such refined forms, gentle curves and fine surfaces. Even on line you can see that the dramatic […]
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10 March – 2 June 2018 Trash Art. Jan Eric Visser uniquely creates art from discarded newspaper and wax. He first began as a sculptor in 1987, since when, he has reflected on the value and potential beauty in trash. He is an artist deeply concerned about depletion of the earth’s resources. While waste is […]
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