Making Art Assemblages From Waste Materials
We are entangled with our waste
This page shows research creation visual art works made from everyday waste material. I pick through the garbage heaps of the postmodern cyborg Anthropocene to find materials to make art. My material explorations of creating assemblages from discarded or decaying materials allow me to clean up, reuse and remake while reflecting on the challenge of creating semi-permanent art assemblages out of unusual often uncooperative materials. New materialism, postmodernism, and posthumanism inform my outlook. As I struggle with these objects' paradoxical fragility, I meditate on international law’s failure to protect human rights and the environment and the opportunities and challenges of art making in times of environmental and human rights crisis.
ART ASSEMBLAGES FROM WASTE MATERIALS
Oonagh E. Fitzgerald, Ukraine with Love, 2022-2023, waste paper calendars, house paint, acrylic markers
Oonagh E. Fitzgerald, Emerging Relations, 2022-2023, one of three masks moulded from waste cardboard packing material, gesso, oil paint
Oonagh E. Fitzgerald, Emerging Relations, 2022-2023, one of three masks moulded from waste cardboard packing material, gesso, oil paint
Oonagh E. Fitzgerald, Emerging Relations, 2022-2023, one of three masks moulded from waste cardboard packing material, gesso, oil paint
Oonagh E. Fitzgerald, Amazonia, Goddess of Waste, 2022-2023, waste paper, plastic and aluminum packing materials, fabric remnants, glue, creeping vine, string, mod podge
Oonagh E. Fitzgerald, Amazonia, Goddess of Waste, (detail) 2022-2023, waste paper, plastic and aluminum packing materials, fabric remnants, glue, creeping vine, string, mod podge