Recycled Art

It’s that time of year again when the summer is close to an end and there’s a nip in the air, when I start to think of what to knit for the fast approaching winter months.

Was looking online for inspiration when I stumbled across Urban Graffiti Knitting, a new craze amongst knitters and I love it! what a cool concept.

It’s been labelled as the most unoffensive urban graffiti.

The concept is simple enough the Knitting artists cover railings, lamp posts or any other object in an urban setting with knitted panels.

One of the coolest I found on the web is a urban Knitted graffiti tree.

This art work is amazingly beautiful and visually stunning. The horses are made from recycled drift wood.

The artist is Heather Jansch who’s art work is made from driftwood that washes up on beach, branches from woodlands and recycled bronze.

I particularly like the way the horses stand in life like poses, I wouldn’t know where to start in doing a piece of life size art and just looking at the horses structure you can see drift wood wouldn’t be the easiest medium to use to create art.

The drift wood horses are absolutely amazing I’d love to go into a garden or wood and discover these amongst the undergrowth.

WOW! the Weee man is amazing piece of recycle art absolutely impressive. First impression on seeing it is, Cool!, but Weee Man has a serious message for mankind!, so although on first sight it excites a viewer on a deeper level it is quite disturbing and thought provoking.

The Weee Man was created in 2005 out of household electrical waste
This 3 meter high, 3.3 ton art project was constructed to bring awareness of how much waste an average person in England will throw away in their life time in unwanted electrical goods.

The canvertible car art, made from recycled cans this must have been such a lot of effort to make this art piece.

Recycled Cans Car Art

This is a pretty cool piece of art made from recycled children’s toys. Artist Robert Bradford used old plastic toys to create an exhibition of his art in London in 2008.

Recycled Toys Dog Art

The theme was “Plastic” which includes the dog art above.

The art exhibit went on display at the Trafalgar hotel, just off Trafalgar Square London in April 2008.