Recycled Art Show: Recycling proves fashionable for artists
AN UNLIKELY fusion of art and recycling has proven such a hit with Peterborough residents that organisers hope to make it an annual event.
AN UNLIKELY fusion of art and recycling has proven such a hit with Peterborough residents that organisers hope to make it an annual event.TRASH – The Recycled Art Show – was held over the bank holiday weekend at the Green Backyard allotments in London Road.
It featured four sculptures, four dresses made from waste materials and a gallery of painted old records.
Green Backyard project manager Sophie Antonelli said: "It went really well and we have had lots of new people come down to the site, which is good because it is still quite a new project.
"Some of the artwork is really complex and creative.
"The Rat Tank had speakers in its wheels playing the A-Team theme and the Flight of the Valkyries. It was a great original piece of work.
"It just shows that because you are making stuff out of rubbish, it doesn't have to be things such as pasta pictures like you make at school.
"We really would like to make it an annual event and Eastex and Muddy Arts Collective, who helped organise the event, are very keen to do it next year and make it bigger and better.
"I'd just like to say thanks to all the volunteers who came down to the site to give their own time to make it happen."
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