Plastic 'fabric' is created from waste packaging, and hand-stitched with contrasting embroidery threads, odd buttons and bits of fishing ropes washed up on seashores. 
'A Folly' at the NEC Recycling and Waste Management international exhibition, September 15-18. I was invited by 'Jarshire' who specialise in decentralising waste management, selling and renting baling units to institutions and small communities, thereby reducing transport of waste and providing a local income. The sculpture attracted a lot of people to the stand and both Jarshire and myself benefitted from the interest. QSP, a company offering health and safety training in the waste management sector, bought all the art I had brought to sell to display in their training centre.
The MOD have since requested I bring 'A Folly' to their recycling training course in Taunton. This is currently being considered as taking it to Birmingham required a lot of fuel, somewhat contradictory for a 'green' exhibit. I am suggesting that I create something on site from the course's own waste. This could still involve bottles and I could take smaller frames by train to assemble in situ.
East Cheshire Hospice, who host a profitable, annual Art Exhibition of local artists in Macclesfield Town Hall, have asked if I would like to exhibit a large sculpture of waste materials, suitable for sale, in October 2010.
