Artist: Kathy Carter
Mediums: Wire grass handcrafted, upcycled lampshade and base
Dimension: 40cm x 36cm x 36cm
Artist Statement:
This lamp has been up-cycled to become something beautiful and functional again. The now new lamp shade is made from handcrafted, wire grass paper produced during an ‘Artist in Residence’ I recently undertook at Curtin Springs Station near Uluru. Other contrasting papers included on the lamp base and lamp shade were made using rusting techniques learnt during the residency.
The ‘Artist in Residence’ enabled me to see a different landscape and lifestyle to our tropical north. This dry, desert landscape provided further ideas, colours and images to incorporate into the recycled papers I produce. Being a recycled paper maker in the NT for more than 20 years it was great to be involved with harvesting the native grasses from the Station, cooking up the grasses and peeling off the finished paper product to be able to produce this up-cycled lamp shade.
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