From Cowboys to Astronauts - exhbition from waste material

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"I’ve often heard people say: ‘I wonder what it would feel like to be on board a spaceship,’ and the answer is very simple. What does it feel like? That’s all we have ever experienced. We are all astronauts on a little spaceship called Earth." -R. Buckminster Fuller

I am taking part in an exhibition entitled From Cowboys to Astronauts. It takes place at The Enviro Hub, Devon Contract Waste in Exeter, from Monday, April 20 till May 24 2015.
We, the artists from Devon, present objects, installations, visual art, etc., made from waste. The meaning of it is to promote the concept of a circular economy – a regenerative economic system where materials and energy from products are recovered and put back into the system instead of simply being disposed of.
The initiative for this exhibition came from the Centre for Alternative Materials and Remanufacturing Technologies (CALMARE), a business technology centre partly funded by the ERDF, based at the University of Exeter. The waste materials used in the exhibition have been sourced from the University itself, from the private 'collections' of artists and from other locations around Devon, including Exeter and Plymouth Scrapstores, Peninsula Waste Savers in Okehampton and the Devon County Council landfill sites managed by SITA.
On Saturday, 2nd May, there will be a Family Day, where you will get the chance to use recycled materials yourselves in children’s workshops run by artists participating in the exhibition.
Meet the Artist days on Saturday, the 9th and 16th of May, will allow the public to talk about exhibited artwork and learn from the artists about their work.

Entry to the exhibition is free, and it is open to the public from Monday to Saturday, excluding bank holidays, until the final Friday, May 22nd 2015. 
Today, Tuesday, the 28th, we have a private view at 8.30 pm.
I will take photos of my paper installation and other artists' objects. Tomorrow, I will make a post based on my impression of this exhibition.

Here are some images of my installation, One Month's Fortune! 







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