This exhibition took 9 months to organise and curate. As we have a small Gallery in my Shop at Buy the Kilo, we had had over 30 solo exhibitions since we opened in 2019, I decided to bring some of these artists together and create an environmental exhibition. These artists like myself, highlight environmental issues within their work.
This exhibition hosted 20 of those artists. I invited them to exhibit in the space and bring together many aspects of Climate Change.
The photo below is showing my piece of work in the exhibition. "The Mask is the New Carrier Bag"
Since Covid began, I have been taking photos of masks everywhere. They became the new carrier bag, as in previous years I had taken hundreds of photos of plastic bags on the land and in the sea. Since the carrier bag tax, there aren't as many lying around. The Covid Mask replaced that blight in the environment and they were everywhere.
I have made over a 100 masks out of carrier bags and this is just a small part of the work. For the viewer, it is as prominent as everyone remembers, those times of wearing masks in those surreal times......... masks were suffocating and debilitating. Having them made out of plastic, also shows this.
This exhibition hosted 20 of those artists. I invited them to exhibit in the space and bring together many aspects of Climate Change.
The photo below is showing my piece of work in the exhibition. "The Mask is the New Carrier Bag"
Since Covid began, I have been taking photos of masks everywhere. They became the new carrier bag, as in previous years I had taken hundreds of photos of plastic bags on the land and in the sea. Since the carrier bag tax, there aren't as many lying around. The Covid Mask replaced that blight in the environment and they were everywhere.
I have made over a 100 masks out of carrier bags and this is just a small part of the work. For the viewer, it is as prominent as everyone remembers, those times of wearing masks in those surreal times......... masks were suffocating and debilitating. Having them made out of plastic, also shows this.