New Life - the film
Tasmanian Hearing and Implant Centre – Dr Kellie Walker’s Encouragement Award $1000
Denise is an Award-winning artist, photographer and author. Through her practice, she aims to encourage the viewer to look at everyday objects from a different angle and challenge one’s perspective on life itself. Denise calls herself a ‘sustainable artist’, giving everyday objects a second and sometimes third chance at life.
‘New Life’ is a work of comprising over 3000 discarded teabags that Denise has repurposed in a variety of ways.
The bodice has been constructed using traditional paper making techniques from shredded teabag pulp. The skirt is comprised of 1800 paper teabag tags with strings intact to add detail and interest. The necklace feature is made from tea bag tags, each laced together.
After meticulously extracting the tea from teabags, Denise has dried the bags, making a unique, gravity-defying headdress from the resulting feather-light, paper tissue canvases. The headpiece is constructed using a traditional book binding technique, weaving the delicate tea bag papers together with toothpicks. The colourful inner headpiece of additional tea bag tags marries with the colours in the skirt to bring the piece together.
Accessories complete the work including. A kaleidoscopic, sea urchin shaped ring, made from recycled paper using traditional paper beading techniques. The spectacular shoes are augmented with vertical hand rolled paper straws up cycled from the pages of an old book.
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