Waste to Art Resources
Waste to Art 2021
We are pleased to announce the winners for the 2021 Sims Waste 2 Art regional competition
Overall Winner is Gary Cooper – Beatnik Band
| CATEGORY | ARTIST | ARTWORK | AWARD | COUNCIL |
| Primary 2 D | Eglinton Public School | Water droplets & the garden | Winner | Bathurst |
| Joshua Peeters | My hero | Highly Commended | Dubbo | |
| Mudgee Playgroup | Bee responsible | Highly Commended | Mid Western | |
| Primary 3 D | Spring Hill Public School | Lord Ali Foil of the steel table & his trusty steed ‘Rusty’ | Winner | Orange |
| Molly & Aisling Cavanough | Mermaid tail | Highly Commended | Mid Western | |
| Alexandra Attree | Percy the robot | Highly Commended | Bathurst | |
| Primary Functional | Scallywags Childcare Centre | Waste not, water wise | Winner | Bathurst |
| Kelsey Finnegan | Fruitilicious | Highly Commended | Parkes | |
| High School 2 D | Annabelle Harris | Butterfly wreath | Winner | Coonamble |
| Jalanah Read, Gemma O’Bryan, Suzanna Wright & Shauri-Lee Taylor | Fossil fuel | Highly Commended | Lachlan | |
| High School 3D | William Munro | The motorbike | Winner | Dubbo |
| Isaiah Zawada | Dragonfly | Winner | Coonamble | |
| Blake McMahon | Jeff | Highly Commended | Parkes | |
| Edie Keightley | Flowers grow | Highly Commended | Mid Western | |
| High School Functional | Trudle Central School – School to Work Program | Time in chain | Winner | Parkes |
| Coonamble High School | Hanging out | Highly Commended | Coonamble | |
| Community 2D | Clare McAdam | Regrowth | Winner | Lithgow |
| Terryll Cassidy | Designer tote bag | Highly Commended | Lachlan | |
| Hayley, Charlotte, Milla, & Elodie Ballantyne | Alice’s garden | Highly Commended | Parkes | |
| Community 3D | Janet Wright | Tin dinner | Winner | Bathurst |
| Terryl Cassidy | Coffee pod windchime | High Commended | Lachlan | |
| Meredith Barber | Patio flowers | Highly Commended | Parkes | |
| Gary Barwick | Tin city | Highly Commended | Orange | |
| Community Functional | Terryl Cassidy | Coffee pod full outfit | Winner | Lachlan |
| Larissa Cross | Lamp 1 | Highly Commended | Bathurst | |
| Robyn Flack | Teddy’s lounge | Highly Commended | Walgett | |
| Amy Fulthorpe | Pepsi 5 pair earring collection | Highly Commended | Bathurst | |
| Ian Row | Shower of enlightment | Highly Commended | Parkes | |
| Cath Peeters | Desperate times = Desperate measures | Highly Commended | Dubbo | |
| Open 2D | Karen Bott | Can you cancan? | Winner | Coonamble |
| Michael Green | Sunflowers over Dargan | Highly Commended | Lithgow | |
| Elsie Mahon | My old cot quilt | Highly Commended | Parkes | |
| Open 3D | Alan Stanger | Checking out the real estate | Winner | Dubbo |
| Bronwyn Ingersole | Highland cow | Highly Commended | Bathurst | |
| Joseph Lynch | Rusty | Highly Commended | Bathurst | |
| Alison Dent | Morning sun, children’s moon | Highly Commended | Coonamble | |
| Helen Munro | Flower | Highly Commended | Lithgow | |
| Sandra Dengate | Cuprous-ferrous foliis | Highly Commended | Oberon | |
| Kelly & Will Hazzard | The watchers | Highly Commended | Bathurst | |
| Helen Standen | Bloody linen dresses | Highly Commended | Parkes | |
| Open Functional | Prue Mogg | Trio of rustic follies | Winner | Lithgow |
| Building /Sculpture 2D | Middleton Public School | Barugil | Winner | Parkes |
| Building/Sculpture 3D | Shani Nottingham | The beginning of all things are small | Winner | Bathurst |
| Maureen Reardon & Jose Wasley | Recycled glass art | Highly Commended | Broken Hill | |
| Buidling/Sculpture Functional | Rex Veal | Chook RV | Winner | Parkes |
| Waste Theme Award | Chelsea Stocks | A moment of peace | Winner | Bathurst |
| Herb Clarke Memorial Award | Deb Jones | Scrap bin lamp | Winner | Parkes |
| Colin Jones Memorial Award | Kelly & Will Hazzard | The watchers | Winner | Bathurst |
| Curator’s Award | Tracy Sorensen | Ritual artifacts – Mount Panorama Wahluu | Winner | Bathurst |
| Sims Metal Award | Christina & Barry Tomlinson | Rusty owl & nest | Winner | Mid Western |
| Overall Winner | Gary Cooper | Beatnik band | Winner | Warrumbungles |
| People’s Choice Award | To be announced | Winner |
The list can be downloaded here
The Regional Exhibition is currently held in Coonamble at the Outback Arts Creative Centre 26 Castlereagh Street from July 19th to September 3rd.
LOCAL COORDINATORS
| BATHURST | ALISON THOMPSON | 02 6333 6544 |
| BROKEN HILL | KATHY GRAHAM | 08 8080 3113 | 0427 997 354 |
| BOURKE | AMANDA SMITH | 02 687 22522 | 0429027992 |
| CENTRAL DARLING | MARGOT MUSCAT | 08 8083 8990 | 0429 914392 |
| COONAMBLE | MADDIE WARD | 02 6822 2484 | 0428 220 029 |
| DUBBO | PHIL AITKEN | 02 6801 4000 |
| FORBES | CASSANDRA GATES | 02 6850 2347 |
| LACHLAN | HEATHER BLACKLEY | 02 6895 2811 |
| LITHGOW | SUMMAR HIPWORTH | 02 6354 9999 |
| MIDWESTERN | FIONA SHEARMAN | 02 6378 2713 | 0408 436 581 |
| OBERON | ASTRID KRIERNING | 02 6329 8123 |
| ORANGE | KATE WILLOUGHBY | 0414 081 669 |
| PARKES | ROXANNE GALLACHER | 02 6862 9101 |
| WALGETT | CATH HISCOX | 02 6828 6104 |
| WARREN | CASSY MITCHELL | 02 6847 6600 |
Once you have contacted your local coordinator, please watch this short video to ensure you pack your artwork safely.
Download: Waste to art Entry Form 2021
Waste to Art is a community art exhibition and competition open to all local residents who reside in the NetWaste region. It engages the community and showcases creative works made from reused & recyclable waste materials.
Councils involved host a local competition and the winning artworks are then transported to a Regional Exhibition which is hosted by a different council each year. 2021 will see Coonamble Shire Council hosting the annual Regional Exhibition. The theme for 2021 is steel and aluminium cans.
Waste 2 Art’s aim is to challenge peoples’ perceptions about ‘rubbish’ and to celebrate the reuse and recycling of waste through arts and crafts. Waste to Art provides an innovative approach to waste education, invites schools and community groups to take up the challenge and create a new life for materials that would otherwise have been thrown away.
2019 WASTE TO ART – OVERALL WINNER
GUS ARMSTRONG
Gus Armstrong has been awarded the 2019 Sims Metal – Waste to Art Overall Prize with his arresting portrait Prisoner encore . Gus is from Mid Western Regional Council.
Gus explains the origins of the work:
‘…Commenting on reflections of our globally changing society and the social frustrations of dealing with mistakes from the past. Feelings of constriction and tangible pain. The push for economic bearing heavy on our chests, choking the very habitat in which we are trying to control. Baling twine discovered in a hay shed, rotten on one side. Neck piece forged from scrap steel… ‘
Download: Waste to art Entry Form 2021
Download: List of winners 2019
Download: List of winners 2018
Download: 2017 Waste to Art Catalogue
Download: 2016/17 Winners List
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