Claire Brooks
Works featured in Solastalgia: Murray Bridge Regional Gallery, 2017
Plastic Soup Ring
collected beach plastic, shell, sterling silver, acrylic 2017
Image: Grant Hancock
Gray Street Workshop, Adelaide 2017
Plastic Soup
collected beach plastic, shell, mild steel 2017
“Sifting through the seaweed for the thousands of the plastic fragments washed up on the beach near my hometown of Fremantle WA, is a sobering reminder of the catastrophic changes to our natural environs. Animals mistakenly ingest these lethal microscopic fragments, unable to differentiate them from plankton. Over the last few years a collated collection of this deadly beach treasure has found a safer place within wearable jewellery pieces and sculptural forms.”
Claire Brooks
Image: Jo Wilmot
For more information on Claire’s work, visit: http://www.clairebrooks.com.au/