'Sarah Turner is an award winning eco artist & designer making beautiful lighting & works of art from waste plastic bottles... Sarah's designs prove that... "just because a product is made from rubbish, it doesn't mean that it needs to look like it does!"'
All of the bottles that Sarah uses in her work are collected locally and then reincarnated into a new life. Through techniques such as dying, cutting and sandblasting, the designer takes to the challenge of sculpting the bottles from a piece of 'useless rubbish', into a final product- something of great beauty and appreciation.
I am interested in the concept of changing materials in a new and different way, alike to our design festival concept- changing the perceptions of the city from negative to positive . As well as the concept, this example of work works well with my chosen route of research: addition of colour to the city. As we are looking at dandelions, the examples above work to a similar colour scheme to our chosen colour palette for this unit.