The Adlington Post

AT Queen's Birthday Weekend I spoke at a seminar ["Craft Plus"] on contemporary craft, at the Waiheke Community Art Gallery. My talk was entitled "From Barbie to Buddha, Paradise Regained - How Recycled Art Can Save the World". Other speakers included Paul Kayser from www.cleverbarsards.com & Esther Lamb from www.toggle.com The Gallery also held a recycled art exhibition - & all my works sold!!..see the red dots below. ...for the text of my talk see http://www.craftplus.blogspot.com

Follow this link to see the feature on my recycled art on TV1 Breakfast earlier in May: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWRcfeLfeNg

Today my friend Horace Williams visited & bought this clock. The face is part of an old aluminum spool from a reel-to-reel tape recorder which I found in the trash last month. See more of my clocks & recycled art at: www.martinadlington.webs.com www.martinadlington.webs.com

My front room at Glen Road is beginning to fill up with junk I have found. The walls on the south side are shown here. The Barbie Mobile is a work in progress...

Last week I found a jar of coins in a dumpster.  There are some 300 coins, the oldest a one cent piece from Ceylon dated 1925 & bearing the impression 'George V King and Emperor of India'. The other coins are from the Philippines, Fiji, Holland, British Borneo, Greece, Italy, Tonga, the Seychelles, France, Great Britain, Singapore, Hong Kong, Thailand, Vanuatu, Canada, China, Panama, Hungary, Papua New Guinea, South Africa, Cayman Is, Argentina, Cooks Is, & an unidentifiable Islamic country.

On Mondays & Wednesdays the shops put out their paper for recycling. The local newsagent disposes of all their unsold newspapers & magazines from the past few days. Here my neighbour [Lily] is helping me sort out glossy magazines for collage & the Eco Games I make.

These toy soldiers came out of a skip on the North Shore, Auckland. I cut the “peace” charm from the lid of a Tupperware container - lets hope it works!! See more trashion pieces on my recycled art website www.martinadlington.webs.com www.martinadlington.webs.com