'Pollution Debris', polymer clay sculptures, fish hooks and found consumables.
This installation aims to highlight how barbaric and damaging the human race are being to marine life and surrounding species through pollution debris in our oceans. Less than 20% of all plastic is recycled globally, with 40% of plastic produced being single use packaging (National Geographic, 2018).
An estimated 640,000 tonnes of nylon ghost nets, lines and discarded fishing gear is abandoned in our oceans each year; ensnaring, maiming, drowning or simply starving hundreds of thousands (World Animal Protection 2014).
This installation is a call to arms, recognising the need to work together to create change. Each sculpture represents a real circumstance, a painful reminder of the destruction we are leaving behind.
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