Description
The story for Amelia’s journey and intimate exploration in waste to art has ushered her towards supporting many networks focused on reducing the amount of marine debris washing into our oceans. This recycled sculpture work is made from ghost nets collected by an organisation called Tangaroa Blue, which in Maori and Polynesian mythology is the god of the ocean. Tangaroa made laws to protect the ocean and its sea creatures; “if you look after me, then I will look after you”. This is my story of my place on this earth.
Materials Ghost net, fishing line, wire, plastic waste, fishing lure, driftwood, wood and paint
Measurements (mm) H 700 W 560 L 370
Estimated cost to post within Australia $75
Contact exhibition@swellsculpture.com.au
About Amelia Batchelor
Amelia is a multidisciplinary artist, originally from New Zealand, who has spent her career in Australia working and exploring within varied creative industries – designing public and community art projects, painting murals for education and events, sculpting for movie and TV sets and commercial illustrating for selected publications. Her studies and continual exploration of using recycled materials with her passion for the environment has forged a vision of life lived within her fine art and sculptures.
Amelia’s engagement with waste as a viable material and not a disposable or problematic item has continued within her sculptural installation works. Her hope is to educate the viewer on the effects of excessive plastic and its continual degradation so as to quantify the viewer’s idea of their human footprint and what our future might look like.
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For enquiries please email exhibition@swellsculpture.com.au
