Clean Up Australia Day – tackling the unnatural disaster
Congratulations to Ian Kiernan on the 20th ‘Clean Up Australia Day’, with 7,084 sites registered in 2010. Congratulations also to Carmel Wallace for her stunning works (exhibited at 101 Collins Street, Melbourne) made from litter collected from the beach at Discovery Bay.
During the 2008-09 year, the Victorian EPA issued 19,465 litter infringement [...]
Bluebottles in the Bay – a sign of things to come?
March 2, 2010 by Nino
Filed under Featured, Wild Things
The recent discovery of Bluebottle jellyfish on Portsea back beach and Bellarine front beach received a low key response in Melbourne mainstream media. Despite a fearful reputation that routinely causes closure of Queensland beaches, a web search revealed that the editors of ‘Adelaide Now’ seemed more interested.
Also known as ‘Stingers’ and ‘Portuguese Man o’ [...]
Carmel Wallace: marine messenger
Artists like Carmel Wallace are rarer than a message in a bottle on the shoreline! Port Phillip EcoCentre was honoured to host Carmel as Artist-in-Residence in July 2008. In just 4 weeks she collected an extraordinary array of litter from beaches in the Bay and the Yarra Bank below Westgate Bridge; and assembled them into [...]
