Recycled Art

These amazing sheep are the work of artist Jean-Luc Cornec. My mum use to have one of those old phones, they would take ages to dial a number, each number was painfully slow at returning back to the start position before attempting the next number to dial. I’m just glad we never needed the emergency […]

Kulja Kugler from Berlin has created a bass playing robot from junk his recycled art project is the first of a whole band he is hoping to make his next two junk band members will be a keyboard player and a drummer he’s hoping the other recycled art robots won’t take as long to as […]

Artist David Kemp designed and made these wonderful dog sculptures from old boots and they can be seen at Redruth in Cornwall there called The Tinners Hounds. I have a pair of old wellies that sadly have holes in them and I stumbled upon David Kemp’s welly dogs while looking for a recycled art project […]

A fashion student from Leicester College won the Sustainable Design Award 2011 with her crisp packet dress. It took student Rebekah Kirkland, two months, using hundreds of empty crisp packets to make her fantastic creation. She said “it was a tedious job but well worth the effort”, every crisp packet was washed before being machine […]

I had the pleasure to meet Dr Geebers the pebble man on Skegness Beach on a cold, windy February day. Dr Geebers (his artistic name) is a homeless man who is travelling around the UK on foot visiting beaches to bring coastal communities a peace of his pebble art sculputures. The Pebble Man started his […]

These Recycled Milk Bottle Plant Pots are grrrrreat :) What a wonderful idea for the garden and to use all that pesky plastic. This art work is created by Anna Garforth a Recycle artist that uses all sorts of Recycle material not just milk bottles, her plastic milk bottle creations where used as part of […]

There are lots of examples of recycling artists creating art from Aluminum cans from the professional or amateur a like on line Aluminum cans are an easy resource for anyone to get a hold of, this makes it the perfect recyclable material for anyone to give a recycled art project a go whether it’s in […]

Love this little recycled toilet roll heads, when I first saw them on the internet I thought they where huge heads that had been made out of lots of recycled toilet roll tubes. I was surprise when I found they where made by one small toilet roll tube. The artist is Junior Jacquet. These recycled […]

It’s that time of year again when the summer is close to an end and there’s a nip in the air, when I start to think of what to knit for the fast approaching winter months. Was looking online for inspiration when I stumbled across Urban Graffiti Knitting, a new craze amongst knitters and I […]

This art work is amazingly beautiful and visually stunning. The horses are made from recycled drift wood. The artist is Heather Jansch who’s art work is made from driftwood that washes up on beach, branches from woodlands and recycled bronze. I particularly like the way the horses stand in life like poses, I wouldn’t know […]