It’s in the Bag

Rebecca Mayo
Caves Gallery Melbourne, 2019
Partners: Art + Climate = Change Festival 2019

In this project Rebecca Mayo created a series of replica supermarket bags. Instead of extruded polyethylene she used silk dyed with plants collected on local walks. Pinned to the gallery wall, the bags operated as fine art. During artist-led walks, visitors were invited to take a bag, which they then filled with rubbish from the streets. Back at the gallery, participants tipped the rubbish on the floor and returned the silk bags to their hooks. This experience brought together local histories, plants as interior décor, rubbish as belonging elsewhere and the ubiquitous presence of plastic, in order to provoke consideration of contemporary relations to the world, including how we might take care of it.

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Waters, Sera Crafty Prepping Artlink Issue 40:1 March, 2020, pp20-27