Creative waste

It’s exciting to see what can be done with other people’s rubbish!

Bridget Griffin, a young zero-waste artist, who recently exhibited at a pop-up show at NorthArt gallery in Northcote, set a challenge for herself in 2022 not to buy any new material for her art.  She was inspired at Whitecliffe College, after feeling stuck in her practice and realising how toxic art material can be.

Since then, she only uses other people’s waste or found materials – old household paint, fabric, expired tattoo ink, metal, parts from air conditioning units. Anything and everything that she finds interesting, she uses to create amazing abstract art.  

She scours recycling centres to find material to inspire her. Bridget says:

“I love to think creatively and take something old and at the end of its life and make something fresh and exciting from it. I’m inspired by what I find, and this influences how I make my art and the result.”