{"id":4437,"date":"2022-11-12T21:31:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T21:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/?p=4437"},"modified":"2025-10-01T07:57:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T07:57:04","slug":"environmental-art-sculpture-earth-bin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/environmental-art-sculpture-earth-bin\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmental art"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art-images\/environmental-art-earth-bin-900w.jpg\" alt=\"Contemporary environmental art sculpture\" title=\"Environmental art sculpture earth bin\u201d\nsrcset=\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Environmental art \u2013 Earth Bin<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contemporary art sculpture\/installation.     January 2017<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve been creating environmental art in one form or another since about 1970. This work is a development of a previous work from the late 1980s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The work is a sculpture showing how I feel the human race is treating the environment &#8211; by putting the planet into the rubbish bin.<br>The sculpture consists of a standard kitchen waste bin, lined internally with very matte black material and with a back-lit image of the earth at its base. The result is the illusion that by looking into the bin you are looking into outer space as though through a porthole in a spacecraft, with the earth floating in the distance. It&#8217;s surprisingly effective.<br>The kitchen waste bin was deliberately chosen as the reciprocal that contains the earth because of its banality, to emphasise how we are causing environmental damage by depleting the earth&#8217;s resources through mundane consumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:16px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<div style=\"padding:75% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/926309900?badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479&amp;autoplay=1&amp;muted=1&amp;loop=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" title=\"Earth in kitchen bin\"><\/iframe><\/div><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>A version of this work was shortlisted for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2022 and was exhibited in my solo show at Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens, Cornwall, the same year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:42px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art-images\/environmental-art-earth-bin-1.jpg\" alt=\"contemporary environmental art sculpture\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art-images\/environmental-art-earth-bin-2.jpg\" alt=\"environmental art sculpture\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Environmental art \u2013 Earth Bin Contemporary art sculpture\/installation. January 2017 I&#8217;ve been creating environmental art in one form or another since about 1970. This work is a development of a previous work from the late 1980s. The work is a sculpture showing how I feel the human race is treating the environment &#8211; by putting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,41,9,16],"tags":[29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4437"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4437"}],"version-history":[{"count":73,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10317,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4437\/revisions\/10317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christophermadden.art\/contemporary-art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}