Mark Vaarwerk - 'Homework'

gaffa Gallery

Thursday 25 February 2010 to Thursday 25 March 2010
"Delve into the garages, spare rooms, bottom drawers, cupboards-below-the-sinks of any home and you will be overwhelmed by mountains of stuff - and most of it plastic. Wasted pens, retired TVs or vacuum cleaners or printers, piles of dirty styrofoam boxes and packaging, shopping bags...

Or a stroll down a busy street, a quick glance in a lunchroom waste-bin, a shortcut down a city alley…

Plastics – discarded, forgotten, superseded, broken. Sifting through this seemingly endless source of raw materials, i transform these everyday materials, utilising simple techniques, into wearable items of jewellery. A small and colourful fragment, new and re-invented, but with still a hint of its less glamorous past.” (Mark Vaarwerk)

www.vaarwerk.com

Location

gaffa Gallery
281 Clarence St Sydney CBD, NSW 2000
Surry Hills Precinct
New South Wales
Australia
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brooch
© All rights reserved Mark Vaarwerk 2010 Australia
black 49mm materials: expanded polystyrene food box, acrylic car head-light cover, permanent marker ink, stainless steel, sterling silver
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bracelet red 83mm
© All rights reserved Mark Vaarwerk 2010 Australia
materials: expanded polystyrene food box, colouring pencil
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brooch green 52 mm
© All rights reserved Mark Vaarwerk 2010 Australia
materials: expanded polystyrene food box, colouring pencil, stainless steel, sterling silver