Waste As Art 2012

Waste as Art 2012

Now in its 13th year, Waste as Art (WAA) encourages residents of the Hunter Valley to turn waste into creative, interesting, inspired, and even crazy art pieces.

The competition is open to all Newcastle, Lake Macquarie, Maitland, Cessnock, Singleton and Port Stephens residents.

It's about using our resources wisely, and showing our community that waste is NOT always waste and that it CAN be a useful resource, and also a source of inspiration.

More than 23,000 people came through the Newcastle Museum during the Waste as Art exhibition where the varied array of artworks made from waste items such as plastic bottles, aluminium cans, glass bottles, old magazines and newspapers, styrofoam, plastic bags, used clothing and broken electrical appliances were displayed.

This year, the Newcastle Museum embraced Waste as Art and hosted Monster Madness workshop in the school holidays where kids made 3D monsters out of recycled materials.

Chloe Hunt’s “Trashed” – a portrait of her mother made using junk materials that used to belong to her or were used by her – earned it’s creator $2500 as winner of the Waste as Art 2012 Art Prize.

Prize sponsors for the 2012 competition included:

• Hunter Resource Recovery
• Thiess Services
• Solo - Resource Recovery
• Source Seperation Systems
• Dean Osland Photograph

Go to the Gallery for a selection of photos of Waste as Art 2012 artworks.

Full Winners List

Overall

Chloe Hunt (Trashed) Charlestown

Open

Winner       

Kimberly Turnbull (Recrudesce – To break out a fresh) Kilaben Bay

Runner-up             

Werner Neuman (From Little Things Big Things Grow) Redhead

Highly Commended     

Leslie Duffin (In Tune) Tingara Heights.

RG (Gary)Boote (Phoenix Rising) Glendale

Secondary School

Winner                    

Ebony Clark (Sand Castle) Mayfield

Runner-up            

Matthew Gray (WARDAPI aboriginal for goanna) Shoal Bay

Highly Commended         

Tara Brownlie (The Taste of Sound) Tomaree High School

Ayden Shepherd (Consumed by Waste) Black Hill

Primary School

Winner                 

Harry, Abbey & Meg O’Toole (Scroot) Marks Point

Runner-up            

Isaac Shepherd (Canned Billy) Black Hill

Highly Commended                        

Iona Public School (Silver Getaway)

Myles Smith (The Bunny Family) Macquarie Hills

Packers Prize

Julie Reid (Junk Mail Ted) Raymond Terrace

Photographers Prize

Werner Neuman (From Little Things Big Things Grow) Redhead

Pete Russell (Is that you ...Louie?) Hamilton

Best Use of Waste Prize

Pete Russell (Is that you ...Louie?) Hamilton

People’s Choice Prize

RG (Gary)Boote (Phoenix Rising) Glendale

Waste as Art 2013

Details coming soon.