Episode 9 - up-cycling & re-cycling of cardboard to make life-like animal sculptures.
Episode Nine – Laurence Vallières
Laurence is a Canadian cardboard artist – she makes incredibly life-like sculptures of animals in variations of sizes from life-size chimps jumping on overturned cars to oversized gorillas. Finding herself nestled within the urban contemporary art movement, she travels around the world exhibiting with galleries, but also appearing as a feature artist at mural festivals and art fairs.
Having always been interested in found objects, Laurence has naturally been attracted to using recycled cardboard. It’s widely available and very often discarded. The use of cardboard in her work is intended to echo the notions of the impermanence and fragility of nature.
She has recently started to use recycled plastic in her work. She says – “I’m concerned about the amount of plastic polluting our waters, so I am finding ways to re-purpose this material by working it into my art. My sculptures will continue to question and reflect my views on the environment and the world around us.”
Episode nine tracklist:
Laurences’s track: Mr. Blue Sky – Electric Light Orchestra
Adam’s track: Pressure - Hylu & Jago feat. Kosher (Ghost Writerz – Dub)
Louis’s track: Monkey Man – Toots & The Maytals
The remix track: Blue Sky – Common
Find out more about Laurences’s projects here…
http://www.laurencevallieres.com
https://www.instagram.com/laurenceval/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR3UHK4wWRg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LehWJicM5bk
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