Rosie is a keen beach go-er living on the Atlantic coast of North Devon, plastics feature on visits - pockets, bags, filled with little bits of plastic. PLASTIC BEACH is a developing body of work - connection between net packaging and light light dancing on the surface of the sea, a development of ideas connected to micro plastic scientific marine research slides. Titled with the names of plastics - polythene, PET, nylon etc and the name of a dance - watching the plastic rubbish on the tide is like watching a waltz or tango or rumba. Abstract images - alarming use of complementary colour - alluring, micro- detail, with a dark tale of the microplastics in our global waters. Rosie believes single use plastics should be banned; human blood samples now often have microplastics in them. This body of work also considers the beauty, tropical shores, the fragility and invisibility of pollution. This ongoing body of work is an abstract expression of a deep concern for people's seemingly unending addiction to single use plastics. Polythene Waltz was a part of an Art for Social Justice / Art-ivist exhibit PATHS at the 2024 Venice Biennial, curated by Amy Jackson and SHIM, digitally shown on Artsy.net. It is a collagraph print made of plastics collected form the beach and single use plastic packaging - playing with synthetic plastics palette and a tropical sea shore - a fragile plate, only 5 prints in the editions.
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