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jewellery to buana satu

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Thanks to Helen's support I now have jewellery on show at Buana Satu once again. Here are some shots - some of the pieces made from the miniature sugar skulls I bought in California earlier in the year as well as an old radio valve as pendant. The chains are made from pieces of bicycle inner tube and knitting needles made into rings.

hobby horses

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Last year I made four hobby-horse heads by cutting the shape out of pieces of 5-ply any then covering them with different objects:  shells, Monopoly money, a jig-saw,and some NZ stamps from the 1970‘s. The eyes are made of beer-bottle caps & black buttons, the reins are pieces of inner-tube, while to make the manes I used wool for two heads and old typewriter ribbons for the others. This week I mounted them onto bases and took them in to "Buana Satu".

Buana Satu update

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Helen at “Buana Satu” in K Rd has displayed the jandal fish and shell hangers as well as the Feng Shui artworks I took into the shop last week.With the advent of spring retail activity should pick up, and of course Christmas shopping will begin soon. Let’s hope for some sales - which will give me an excuse to make more pieces! clock from junk.... united tribes flag

recycling manifesto

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Some time ago I was invited to be a judge at the "Trash to Fashion" show on Waikeke Island. At the symposium before the show I gave a talk entitled: “FROM BARBIE TO BUDDHA or PARADISE REGAINED - HOW RECYCLED ART CAN SAVE THE WORLD”  Read the full text at: http://www.craftplus.blogspot.co.nz/  I will print this text out and make copies available at the assemblage exhibition I am participating in at the Depot Community Art Gallery in March 2016. See my blog on this show: http://trashnart.blogspot.co.nz/

imagination and other matters

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Freelance writer & photographer Jason Burgess visited me the other week at home. We talked about art/life/recycling and Jason took some photos which he has used to illustrate a blogpost he wrote about his visit. Jason: " I consider myself fortunate to meet and know so many people whose lives I would call living art. Adding to that number is Martin Adlington, the self-titled Professor of Garbology, who has spent the best part of fifty years living beyond the aspirational norms of mainstream society, re-contextualizing the world at hand and travelling the globe off the back of his ostensibly rudimentary, often genius and witty spontaneous crafts and recycled art techniques." Read more: http://www.burgseyephotos.blogspot.co.nz/#!http://burgseyephotos.blogspot.com/2015/07/consider-myself-fortunate-to-meet-and.html

tyres not tired-out

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How's this for a great idea for a bike rack! I will look into making one for the Men's Shed North Shore.... For info on the Shed see: www.mensshednorthshore.org.nz And/or read my Shed blog: www.shedyarns.blogspot.co.nz

my first swan

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With some help I produced my first car-tyre swan. Thanks to Kevin & Laurie for their assistance & advice. Now it's off to the Men's Shed North Shore to make a head.

car tyre swans

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At last I have found someone who can show me how to make swans out of old car tyres.  It's just a matter of scale, & having the right equipment:  Watch how they make this gigantic bird HERE

fun with the folks at phab

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A couple of weeks ago I was invited to the PHAB studio in Takapuna to help the folks make fridge magnets. We all had a great time, and the guys made some fun things to take home....   PHAB provides opportunity for people both disabled and non-disabled to come together for social activities, with 16 groups that meet weekly throughout the greater Auckland area. They have a main focus of young people 16 - 25.  PHAB strives to break down the barriers that result in social isolation.

owairaka school project

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Yesterday I was privileged to address  Room 16 pupils at Owairaka School in Mt Albert on the subject of making sculptures from pieces of bicycles. Bicycle parts were kindly supplied by Marissa Oakley Browne from the Waitakere Recycling Station in Henderson. Watch this space for the results.

recycled art on tv

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Another three minutes of fame!! The skilled folks from Whitebait TV made a short doco on my dumpster diving and upcycling activities which screened on June 8 2012. Watch by clicking on the image:

recycled art show and tell

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Today I had great fun doing a show and tell with my recycled artworks for an attentive audience from PHAB Assn. Inc. (PHysically Disabled and Able-bodied) who came over from Takapuna. Many thanks to Sarah and the support crew, as well as to the young folks themselves. "PHAB is a ‘constructive support network’ not a service organization. We mentor and foster leadership among all our members. We have people, disabled and non-disabled, working together at every level of the organization. Building Dreams...Building Hopes...Building Lives...Building Futures...Building Friendships...Building Me..." www.phab.org.nz

browns bay on tv

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The week before Xmas a very professional team from Whitebait TV spent the best part of a day with me - doing an interview & filming for a documentary on environmental artists in New Zealand - to be screened on TV sometime early this year. We had fun in the dumpster & on the beach. Hopefully I was able to get my message across: the motto is "reduce, reuse, recycle" - but no-one talks about reducing! I guess the likes of the Warehouse, Harvey Norman etc won't like that message. Too bad. The problem with the current recycling fad is that it to me it makes buying crap OK - as long as you recycle it when you're done. Sorry, but no, it doesn't work that way: Just don't buy crap in the first place. The core of the problem is that most people can't differentiate between their needs & their wants - more on this later. In the meantime, may I suggest viewers read "To Have or to Be" by Erich Fromm - a seminal text on the topic.

Recycled Art Show and Tell Video - the trailer

BEACH TRASH ASSEMBLAGES

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"BBBBBBBalls"......................... "Best By" "Four Tui"..................... "Fcuk Me Shoes" "Mortagee Sale" Today I picked up some more stuff from the beach after the winds & high seas....I have been reading a new book about the surrealist artist Joseph Cornell, & was inspired to place some of my new & old finds into small boxes. See more of my  recycled, upcycled and environmental works at www.martinadlington.webs.com