Artist: DAREN GREENHOW
Title: Frog, Lizard, Crane & Heron
Materials/Info: Scrap metal, bicycle bits, cogs & chains.
Artist: GILBERT WHYMAN ARBS
Titles: Crocodile, Eagle, Heron & Bird
Materials/Info: Miscellaneous steel scrap, car & bike parts, old hand tools and gardening implements.
Gilbert has exhibited sculpture at the Royal Academy.
Artist: DAREN GREENHOW
Title: Fish on Bicycles
Materials/Info: Scrap metal, bicycle and bicycle bits, cogs & chains.
Artist: JOE RUSH
Title: Blunderbird 'Moa' Bike (2008)
Materials/Info: Re-assembled 1956 Royal Enfield Clipper motorbike.
The Moa Bird was a giant flightless bird related to the Emu and reaching about 12ft with neck outstretched.By 1500AD the Moa Bird had been hunted to extinction by man. (New Zealand)
The artist Damien Hirst commissioned a life-size bronze of this sculpture. Joe is a founder member of the Mutoid Waste Company.
This magnificent sculpture was first shown at the MuTATE Britain exhibition in 2008.
Artist: GAVIN DARBY
Title: The Twitcher
Materials/Info: Miscellaneous scrap metal finds, steel pipe and fire extinguishers.
Wetlands are being destroyed faster than any other ecosystem and as a result 41% of waterbirds are in decline. Thirty percent of wetland mammals are globally threatened and nearly one third of the world's amphibian species are threatened with extinction.
Thanks to the support of our members WWT can continue to manage, develop and protect wetland habitats, conserve endangered species and share knowledge and inspire people to take positive conservation action.
Artist: CHRIS PILMORE
Title: "Out for a Takeaway"
(Crocodile and Crane)
Materials/Info: Crocodile constructed from scrap plywood, rubber tyres and inner tubes. The Crane's white feathers are made from milk cartons with steel legs and a wooden beak.
Artists: KATCHA BILEK & FRANCK LAMOUR
Title: Crocodile
Materials/Info: Discarded rubber tyres and inner tubes.
Artist: CHRIS PILMORE
Title: Perch
Materials/Info: Green plastic arboreal tubes over a reclaimed plywood frame.
White milk cartons and black plastic plant pots make up the fish scales. It's fins are laminated and sprayed perspex off-cuts.
Laminated plywood reeds are coloured with old printer ink cartridges and plastic bubble wrap, fish eggs.
Artist: DANNY MANNING
Title: Bumble Bee
Materials/Info: Mixed plastic bags & wire.
Albert Einstein once said: “If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live”.
Although most of our staple foods (corn, wheat, rice and the other cereals), are wind pollinated, entomologists today agree that the sudden and mysterious disappearance of bees from their hives
poses serious problems!
The loss of a species occupying key positions in ecosystems can endanger the entire ecosystem and ‘co-extinctions’ accelerate the rate of species and biodiversity loss.
Artist: MARIAN BRUCE
Title: Untitled
Materials/Info: Willow branches in an organic installation.
Insects & bugs are an important source of protein for birds, amphibians, bats and other small mammals.
The use of insecticides in farming and in our own households & gardens result in poisoned insects entering the food chain.
Artist: LAWRIE SIMONSON
Title: Bugs
Materials/Info: Created from kitchen pans, skip finds and salvaged car parts.
Lawrie has always had a fascination and love of insects and wildlife.
Artist: JAC SCOTT ARBS
Title: Your Carbon Footprint
Materials/Info: Discarded shoe soles.
The number on each sole represents tonnes of carbon emitted.
What 'size' are you?
Artist: LUCY EDKINS
Title: Albatross/Trash Vortex
Materials/Info: Wood, rags, cement and discarded plastic waste.
This startling installation is based on the life-threatening impact of waste on wild birds, sea & ocean life. The swirling ‘trash vortex’ off Hawaii is just one example.
The Albatross get caught-up in discarded fishing nets and mistake plastic waste as food to feed hungry chicks.
Artist: ANTHONY WILSON
Title: Blue Eyed & Blue Spotted Frog
Materials/info: Recycled crushed glass & copper slag on an armature of recycled car, satellite dish & computer parts.
Title: Mobi the Frog
Materials/info: Armature of computer parts and satellite dish for mouth. Mosaic of old mobile phones.
Mobi says; "Recycle them!"
Anthony's first frog was commissioned by ZSL/London Zoo to highlight the plight of amphibians in the Year of the Frog 2008. "Frederick the Frog" so nicknamed by the Zoo, was ceremoniously topped-off by Sir David Attenborough who is patron of the conservation charity Amphibian Ark (AArk). www.amphibianark.org
Artist: PTOLEMY ELRINGTON
Title: Heron
Materials/Info: Shopping trolleys.
This elegant sculpture was created from that icon of urban decay the shopping trolley dumped in a canal (later found and retrieved by the artist).
A poignant reminder of how useful objects can inadvertently enter the waste stream.
Artist: ANDREW DE FRIEZ MA
Title: SwanBrella
Materials/Info: Discarded umbrellas, plastics bin liners.
Andrew collected discarded umbrellas from family & friends and added plastic bin liners. The sculptures are designed to be beautiful and fun and make us all think about the “things” that we possess and make no real use of.
Artist: MAGGI SQUIRE
Title: Water Bird
Materials/info: Plastic bags and salvaged bike rims.
Created to highlight problems that plastic bags have on birds, wildlife and our environment. Originally made as part of 16-year-old Orla McKeon-Carter's "ITV Fixers" project, to get Plymouth plastic bag free.
Artist: KEVIN HERLIHY
Title: Golden Eagle
Materials/Info: Painted aluminium, stain-less and galvanised steel, concrete base.
Kevin's sculptures can often be found near waterways. He has a particular love of the river Thames where he finds many of the 'materials' he uses.
Artist: RON DEN DAAS
Title: "What's it worth" (Golden Tree)
Materials/Info: Intricately painted plastic bottles, tin cans and metal rods.
This work alludes to the tragic Greek myth of King Midas who lost everything he loved in his obsession for gold. This draws a parallel to current consumerist practices that are over burdening the natural environment.
Artist: TONE Holmen
Title: Peacock
Materials/Info: Salvaged washing machine drum, aluminium shelving rods and reclaimed CD's.
Artist: CHRISTY SYMINGTON ARBS
Title: Tiger Wood
Materials/Info: Salvaged poplar, safety fencing, plastics, gold and copper leaf.
Salvaged wood references the land struggle for survival between the tiger's habitat and human needs. Entrapment, poaching, Tibetan tiger rugs, tiger stripes and pelts are signified by the orange and black man-made plastics. 2010 is the Chinese Year of the Tiger as they face encroaching extinction by 2015.
Christy has studied tigers in the wild. One of her tiger installations can be seen at ZSL London Zoo.
Artist: SANDIE SUTTON
Title: Hornbill
Materials/Info: Pickaxe & tool handles, machine bed parts and car suspension springs, on a marble base.
Artist: MICHELLE READER MA
Title: Redshank
Materials/Info: Steel tubing, bar stool, electrical cable, copper wire, coffee tins, aluminium drinks cans, shower curtain spring hooks, bicycle mudguard, plastic colanders, buggy tyre, shelf brackets, window blinds, fabric and wood.
Artist: TOM KENT
(TEDDINGTON SCHOOL YEAR 8)
Title: Fishing
Materials/Info: Chicken wire stuffed with plastic bags and a football.
The fisherman is catching a can of sardines and it refers to over fishing.
Artist: JACKSON IREDALE (TEDDINGTON SCHOOL YEAR 8)
Title: Cave Painting
Materials/Info: Reclaimed wooden toilet seat, bedsprings, table lamp and tin cans.
Artist: DAMIAN WRIGHT
(TEDDINGTON SCHOOL YEAR 8)
Title: Stork
Materials/Info: Scrapped vacuum cleaner and hairdryer.
Artist: WILL CURTIS
(TEDDINGTON SCHOOL YEAR 8)
Title: Dragon
Materials/Info: Traffic cone, plastic bottles and bags.
