Artworks

Merri Creek : The Art of Detritus

I identify as a Contemporary Environmental Artist and Activist. I use found objects collected along a 1 km radius from the Merri Creek. Objects include wood, paper, plastics, metals and fabrics. In 2016 I began collecting particular found objects (litter) to further make an important political statement into contemporary art forms. The effect of COVID waste has since added another dimension to this work.

My work is informed by sculptor and assemblage artist, Rosalie Gascoyne (1917 -1999) as well as sculptor, Inge King (1915 -2016) with whom I studied and exhibited. Both artists have had a profound influence on my work, including my current practice. Another influence is via my long term friend and collaborator, Gay Hawkes (1942-), whose broad practice also embrasses furniture making from natural materials and objects washed up from the ocean.

 

Carolyn Lunt at her first solo exhibition opening on 13th September at the Northcote library. 29 August - 02 October 2023





Hon Ged Kearney MP - Member for Cooper - congratulatory speech











My art practice is connected to country. My revegetation methods since 1983 bring back food sources and habitats for native birds and wildlife in this specific Merri Creek environs. It is politically entwined with destructive human behaviour and and its impact on the health of the planet. For many years, I have been proactive in lobbying State and local governments to prevent litter entering the Merri Creek. The found objects, including the frame, were collected from the riparian zone, the waterway and from a 1 km radius from the Merri Merri.

This land now called Australia was invaded and colonised. When the colonisers invaded this land, they took and manipulated the peope the original inhabitants, the fauna, the avi fauna the flora and destroyed the ecosystem. My artwork shows that by our own actions this still continues today. This continuing affect on biodiversity can be seen through my artwork.

When you look at my work think of a bird or animal that if you were an indigenous person which one may have been given to you as your totem?
I challenge you to think about this statement, “Think like a river, think downstream.” Statement from an indigenous inhabitant.




A1 Darebin Art Salon 2023 15 March - 24 June at Bundoora Homestead Art Centre Winner of The People's Choice Award for Textile-Mixed Media	A Disbility Lens on Climate Emergency 06 July 2023 - 05 August 2023 Climarte Gallery Winner of The People's Choice Award for Textile- Mixed Media
Fuck Covid, 2021	Death Mask, 2023

 

 

 


Creative Arts Exhibition, 2023
Living Colour


13 October - 22nd October Brunswick Uniting Church





Discarded Flavours, 2023


 

	Life Cycles, 2023

 

Discarded Initmacy, 2021	Labels of Relinquishment, 2023

 

Carolyn working in her studio

Erecto Maxo, 2022

Three Cokes on a Wall

	Four Cokes on a Wall, 2020

 

 

 

 

 













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