Don’t miss, Art from Trash

Shar Molloy

Artists from the local community are set to dazzle us with their creativity and ingenuity, showing how waste can be re-thought, re-used and re-created into works of art. The annual Art from Trash exhibition, with over 60 exhibits, officially opens at 6.00pm on the 20th of June 2008 at the Long Gallery in the Salamanca Arts Centre and will run until Thursday 26th June 2008.
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THURSDAY 19TH JUNE 2008

TRASH TO TREASURE – THE ART OF REUSE AND RECYCLING
ANNUAL “ART FROM TRASH” EXHIBITION

Artists from the local community are set to dazzle us with their creativity and ingenuity, showing how waste can be re-thought, re-used and re-created into works of art. The annual Art from Trash exhibition, with over 60 exhibits, officially opens at 6.00pm on the 20th of June 2008 at the Long Gallery in the Salamanca Arts Centre and will run until Thursday 26th June 2008.

“Every year Resource Work Cooperative, the owners and operators of the South Hobart Tip Shop and the CBD Collectables Shop, provides an opportunity for members of the local community to exhibit in the annual Art From Trash exhibition. The exhibition has been run for over twelve years with increasing interest and participation from the community and aims to educate people on how to minimise waste. It is open to people of all ages and experience but all the art works must be made from materials reincarnated from rubbish previously discarded, salvaged, destined for landfill or purchased from a tipshop” Coordinator for Resource, Shar Molloy explains.

“Resource is a successfully run, local cooperative. We are devoted to the reduction and redirection of waste within the community through the salvaging of resources from the McRobies Gully Landfill in South Hobart. Resource has created employment for 25 local people through the salvaging and resale of discarded goods and materials. We have two retail outlets, one on site at the McRobies Gully Recycling Depot in South Hobart, known as the South Hobart Tip Shop and our Collectables shop at 117 Elizabeth St in Hobart”, explains Shar.

The exhibition will be a range of mediums, including sculpture, oil painting, mosaic, collage, and textiles. All Southern Tasmanian Schools have been invited to visit this year’s exhibition and the Tip Shop to consider what they could contribute to next year’s exhibition. There will be a people’s choice award for the best re-use of material, announced at the end of the exhibition. The exhibition runs from 20th June to 26th June 2008, opening hours 9am until 5.00pm weekdays and 10am until 4pm on weekends in the Long Gallery, at the Salamanca Arts Centre.

Contact:

Shar Molloy
Coordinator
Resource Work Cooperative