Sustainable sculpture

Pascale Marthine Tayou: Plastic Tree, 2010, Private collection http://www.pascalemarthinetayou.com/

More plastic in the sea than fish by 2050...? These artists are turning plastic bottles into beautiful art, sculpture and installation

Upcycled Plastic Sculpture at the Museum of Fine Arts and Montery Bay Aquarium. From Trash to Fine Art: Upcycled Plastic turned into sculpture.

Artist Stéphanie Kilgast (previously) envisions a vibrant, post-apocalyptic world overgrown with coral, fungi, and lush moss. Using cheap devices and disposable containers that tend to outlast their original function as her base, Kilgast creates painted-clay assemblages that are teeming with fantastical colors and texture: mushrooms sprout from an empty paint tube, sea creatures envelop a crushed can, and plant life cloaks a pair of headphones with whimsical botanicals. Each of the works…

A stunning paper mache table lamp handcrafted from recycled paper and glue to form a highly detailed illuminated mushroom.

Not a Give 'Em Props Creation- but I just love it! So fun and creative. John lewis Mk baobab tree by piratronics

Embedded within the eroded cement and marble pillars of artist Jamie North are a host of plants native to Australia. Kangaroo vines, Port Jackson figs, and kidney weeds wrap themselves around steel cables and grow from the crevices of the cracked stone forms, juxtaposing the industrial, human-made sculptures with organic elements. The lush greenery infusesContinue reading "Australian Plants Grow from the Crevices of Jamie North’s Living Sculptures"

Smile if you hate plastic!

Colombian artist Carols Bonil focuses his attention on ordinary utensils, creating the massive form of a fish skeleton using just white plastic forks.

Anything can become art in the hands of a true talent. Stephanie Kilgast takes discarded items like cans, broken plates, jars and sculpts around them, giving the trash new lives as pieces of art.