Yvonne Lockart - You can do it with plastics

The following is part of the response to the You can do it with plastics request by AUB staff and students.

Yvonne Lockart - BA(Hons) Fine Art, part time year 4

Kitchen Reef, 2010

As my kitchen is my workshop, I started off there, with the humble manmade kitchen sponge. I set it free to be like its natural cousins, then it grew and developed into a full blown reef, that enveloped the kitchen, using allsorts of ready made items found there. I used the oven and heat gun to melt and bond plastic items together.

Kitchen Reef, 2010

Kitchen Reef, 2010





Kitchen Reef, 2010



Will Strange - You can do it with plastics

The following is part of the response to the You can do it with plastics request by AUB staff and students.

Will Strange - Senior Lecturer, Modelmaking

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Architectural models have never been miniatures of their subject. Instead they are usually representations of the appearance of buildings. Today, developments in digital visualisation are such that it can be argued that the traditional architectural model is no longer needed to show the appearance of a building. The scale model has thus been freed to represent other qualities of the building.

Historically, models have been made to represent the form, finish or massing of a proposal as realistically as possible. The line between modelmaking and sculpture starts to be blurred once we begin to consider the possibility of representing the feel, age, textures, sound etc of an architect’s proposal.

This small sculpture is one of a collection that aims to explore the potential for using architectural modelmaking styles and techniques to produce sculpture. It makes use of acrylic sheets, block and rod, three materials commonly found in any modelmaking studio. Clear blocks of acrylic have been machined with a circular saw, sheets have been laser cut and the thin rods are shaped and cut with hand tools.

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Elise Price - You can do it with plastics

The following is part of the response to the You can do it with plastics request by AUB staff and students.

Elise Price - BA (Hons) Photography, year 3

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Exploring the boundaries of the natural and man-made, and mans relationship with the land, I created this site-specific sculpture which combines synthetic polyethylene sheeting and the natural landscape. Through the temporal state of the work and its ever changing nature due to the natural elements such as light and wind, I wanted to show the transience of the natural world.

Harriet Thomas - You can do it with plastics

The following is part of the response to the You can do it with plastics request by AUB staff and students.

Harriet Thomas - BA (Hons) Fine Art, year 2

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My practice is mainly craft based using traditional techniques with contemporary materials.  Transforming the mundane into the extravagant or extraordinary is a subject matter my work embodies. Using found objects or materials I attempt to renovate them into something other than their customary function; by means of different forms of embellishment.  Using polythene bags I create my own yarn which I use to produce my sculptures; juxtaposing mass production with a handmade outcome.  Utilising the craft of crochet allows me to transform the viewpoint of polythene bags from a negative mass, seen to have a single use, into a positive by the means of a unique sculpture.  The sculpture was in response to two units Defining Practice 2 and Negotiated Practice 1. 

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Jill Clark - You can do it with plastics

The following is part of the response to the You can do it with plastics request by AUB staff and students.

Jill Clark - BA (Hons) Fine Art, part time year 4

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I am inspired to paint visual equivalents of conversations of all kinds in an abstract manner.  I use squeegees made from various sources to create the layers and structures necessary for the painting.  The ones here are from plastic milk bottles.  After using them they are often very interesting in their own right and so I keep them and consider them to be sentences taken from the conversation.   

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Gillian Goodridge - You can do it with plastics

The following is part of the response to the You can do it with plastics request by AUB staff and students.

Gillian Goodridge - BA (Hons) Fine Art, part time year 4

No Title, 2010 – 2011, Oil on plastic (Knorr Stock Pots)

Art is the demonstration that the ordinary is extraordinary, Amedee Ozenfant

My inspiration: everyday life.  My passion: art.

I question the traditional distinction between the realms of art and everyday life by blurring the boundary between these realms through the re-presentation of readymades, assisted readymades and everyday, commonplace experiences. 

I transform everyday objects by applying simple interventions in form and/or presentation, changing their status from commonplace objects to art objects.  By shifting the context in which the viewer encounters these objects, I aim to turn the previously banal into the exceptional and unexpected.

Underside No Title, 2010 – 2011, Oil on plastic (Knorr Stock Pots)

Detail No Title, 2010 – 2011, Oil on plastic (Knorr Stock Pots)

Robin Mackenzie - You can do it with plastics

The following is part of the response to the You can do it with plastics request by AUB staff and students.

Robin Mackenzie - BA (Hons) Illustration, year 2



The Bucket People

The Bucket People came about from exploring traditions that may be wasted or lost in the future, activities such as wassailing, conker fights and real afternoon tea.  These, and many other old customs are such a huge part of our culture and heritage, it would be such an awful shame if they were forgotten.

The pieces are of course based around the plastic buckets; I wanted to offset these old traditions with the new and the colourful.  This is coupled alongside the acrylic paintings; they stare out from a different time, wanting you to join with them, to live and breathe tradition once again.