- Venue
- Birkenhead Visitors Centre
- Starts
- Monday, July 2, 2012
- Ends
- Friday, July 20, 2012
- Address
- Birkenhead Park Visitor Centre, Park Drive, CH41 4HY Birkenhead, United Kingdom
- Location
- North West England
A “rubbish” show in Birkenhead Park Visitors Centre doesn’t sound very appealing but with over 30 Merseyside based artists & craftspeople using junk it is definitely an exhibition worth viewing. The exhibitors have taken rubbish, litter & un-used items to recreate into artwork and craftwork showing how with a bit of creativity and skill – things that would inevitably end up in landfill can be transformed and be saved. Following her involvement with the organisation of recycling art shows in 2010 and 2011, curator Alison Bailey Smith has had support from Wirral Council again in mounting the exhibition, she said: “This year, we have used social media to ask for items such as milk bottles & plastic to transform as well as exchanging our own unwanted hoarded, redundant “gems”. We visited the recycling plant to see the sorting process 1sr hand. After this many artists reconsidered the items they were using to shift to items not currently being recycled through the recycling facilities. One of the pieces to be featured in the exhibition will be our new sign made of scrabble parts & broken plates produced at a mosaic workshop during our de-junk, re-junk workshops funded by MRWA in March & a piece of furniture made using reclaimed wooden floorboards by a localmastercraftsman.”
