Recycled Art

A fashion student from Leicester College won the Sustainable Design Award 2011 with her crisp packet dress. It took student Rebekah Kirkland, two months, using hundreds of empty crisp packets to make her fantastic creation. She said “it was a tedious job but well worth the effort”, every crisp packet was washed before being machine [...]

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I had the pleasure to meet Dr Geebers the pebble man on Skegness Beach on a cold, windy February day. Dr Geebers (his artistic name) is a homeless man who is travelling around the UK on foot visiting beaches to bring coastal communities a peace of his pebble art sculputures. The Pebble Man started his [...]

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These Recycled Milk Bottle Plant Pots are grrrrreat What a wonderful idea for the garden and to use all that pesky plastic. This art work is created by Anna Garforth a Recycle artist that uses all sorts of Recycle material not just milk bottles, her plastic milk bottle creations where used as part of a [...]

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There are lots of examples of recycling artists creating art from Aluminum cans from the professional or amateur a like on line Aluminum cans are an easy resource for anyone to get a hold of, this makes it the perfect recyclable material for anyone to give a recycled art project a go whether it’s in [...]

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Love this little recycled toilet roll heads, when I first saw them on the internet I thought they where huge heads that had been made out of lots of recycled toilet roll tubes. I was surprise when I found they where made by one small toilet roll tube. The artist is Junior Jacquet. These recycled [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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

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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. The theme was “Plastic” which includes the dog art above. The art exhibit went on display at the Trafalgar hotel, just off Trafalgar Square [...]

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